Move over Raspberry Pi. The new king of low-end IRC servers is the
4.77 MHz 8088. A port of ngIRCd to 16-bit DOS. Hey, why not?
reddit / irc

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FFClass · 2021-07-30 21:13

I’ll see if I can dig it up later, but there’s a video on YouTube from
this guy - he wrote an IRC server in what (I think) was QuickBasic for
the 8088.

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UselessSoftware · 2021-07-31 00:54

lol, that was actually me. A long time ago. Maybe 15 years ago. I
finally thought I'd revisit that idea but do it with a real IRCd this
time.

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sorcerer420 · 2021-08-12 20:57

i just read about a ircd being powered by, i think it was a Pi, but it
was on a lawnmower

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Skrede · 2021-09-21 19:04

While not quite as cool as a lawn mower, I had a irc server running on
a PlayStation II at some point. Took forever and a day to compile,
but it ran ok, and connected to the (small) network just fine. Had to
take it back down after a few days; my flat mate wanted to play games
on his console.

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guptaxpn · 2023-08-06 01:15

link?