39年前的老古董 IBM PCjr 当网页服务器，已连续运行105天

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IT之家 7 月 16 日消息，根据 Brutman Labs 网站更新的信息显示，该网站的服务器已经连续运行了 2500 个小时，创造了一个自己的新纪录。更令人惊讶的是，这台服务器竟然是一台 39 年前的 IBM PCjr ，搭载了一颗 4.77 MHz 的 CPU。

Brutman Labs 的网页自称是“复古计算性能艺术”，截至IT之家撰写本文时，这台米黄色的 IBM 计算机已经不间断地运行了 2541 个小时以上，也就是超过 105 天没有进行任何重启。

IBM PCjr 的具体配置如下：

当然，连续运行 105 + 天并不会让其榜上有名，旅行者太空船上的计算机已经连续运行了超过 48 年（并且还在继续）而没有重启。如果只算地球上的计算机，目前的最高纪录是 2018 年退役的一台服务器保持的，它连续运行了超过 16 年。

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DOS网络相关软件还不错：http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/mTCP.html
Overview

mTCP is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. The applications include:

    DHCP: a DHCP client for auto-configuring your machine for use on your network.
    FTP: an FTP client for transferring files across the network at high speed.
    FTPSRV: a high performance FTP server that allows multiple connected clients, a sandbox area for untrusted users, etc.
    HTGET: the HTGet program for downloading files/content from web (HTTP) servers
    HTTPSERV: an HTTP server supporting HTTP 0.9, 1.0, 1.1
    IRCJR: the IRCjr IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for chatting on IRC networks.
    NC: the Netcat command which can be used to send and receive data easily across a network.
    PING: the Ping command for checking basic network connectivity.
    PKTTOOL: A packet sniffer and diagnostic tool for packet drivers
    SNTP: an SNTP client for getting the current date and time from public servers on the Internet.
    TELNET: a Telnet client for connecting to Unix systems, BBS systems, or any computer that supports Telnet.

mTCP runs on all variants of DOS including IBM PC-DOS, Microsoft MS-DOS, DR-DOS and FreeDOS. All of these applications will run well on the oldest, slowest PC that you can find - I routinely use them on an IBM PCjr made in 1983 because nothing beats the fun of putting a 39 year old computer on the Internet.

People are using mTCP for goofing off and for real work. If you have a DOS machine that needs to send data across the network mTCP can help you get that done. Besides its utility to vintage computers I have heard of people using it to transfer lab data from dedicated industrial PCs, allowing backups to be run on old machines, and sending sales reports from the branch offices of a retail store to a central server.

Don't have a vintage computer laying around? No problem! mTCP applications will run in a variety of virtual and emulated environments. It has been tested with modified DOSBox builds, VirtualBox, VMWare, and QEMU. See the documentation for the details.