Ltning (@ltning@weirdr.net)

Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

#FreeBSD and #OSS enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Ltning » 2025-06-28
@ltning@weirdr.net

I have a #snac server running under NetBSD on a 486, which also runs X. It's indeed painfully slow but it does work. And surprisingly well, too. An OS from 2025 on hardware from 1994.

And if it wasn't for crypto being too slow to actually work I'd be doing the same on the 386SX-class machine that I also have running NetBSD. But with a hyper-optimized SSH handshake taking over a minute, I have no hopes for 2k RSA signatures or any kind of TLS handshakes with remote instances happening in anywhere near the timeframe they would need to..