my 30 watt, 33 MHz webserver
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This page is coming to you from a 1993 Mac LC475 which I upgraded/chipped with a true
Motorola 68040 with Floating Point Unit, running at a mere 33 MHz. The OS of
choice is, of course, NetBSD, and because of
that, this For fun, of course, but also as some sort of statement, if you like. I myself am (update as of may 2008, i'm now over the ...30GHz barrier and counting...) So, when I turned my Sun Ultra 1 into a transparent OpenBSD-bridge without IP-number, thereby losing a machine for simple (testing) tasks, I didn't feel like grabbing yet another machine for some IRC-ing and such... So, looking around in my closet I saw the LC475 and tada! here we are :-) Some (less decent) pictures of Elsie can be found here (NSFW, euhm, if you're a sysadmin) 
Oh, and if you think this is the only thing this lovely LC does, think again! I also use it as my 24/7 EPIC(ircII)client, /VERSION me now! ;-) some dynamically generated statistics (grabbed from Sysinfo 1.3): Last update: Sun Jul 6 02:52:12 UTC 2008 Uptime: 15:14 Load Averages: 0.26, 0.42, 0.41 Yes, it really runs on: NetBSD 1.6 on mac68k There is/are 0 logged-in user(s) RAM (total/used): 20 MB / 7 MB Swap(total/used): 125 MB / 0 MB Total nr. of processes: 21 Top process: [reaper] Nr. of CPU's: 1 CPUs CPU-type: Apple Macintosh LC 475/33 (68040) Well, you mustbe really interested if you read all up to here... So, how about this machine's dmesg? Oh, and of course, how could I forget? The BogoIIPS CPU-test! For comparison, a Duron 1300 on NetBSD does about 1.2 million, my 180MHz R5000SC SGI Challenge does about 130.000 and elsie? Well, about 8 times the amount a 4.77MHz PC/XT on Basic does... eight times! And about 430 times as fast as my Casio calculator! fourhundred-and-thirty times! Now, that is quick, isn't it? ADDED because of some work I did, I was busy with some Linux Benchmarks... so eventually the idea came to also run it on the most brilliant Unix-server of them all, this little LC475... and how did it do? Well (drumroll) here's the result. This little LC475 scored 1.4 on the Dhrystone2-benchmark and 1.4 on the total benchmark as well (for comparison, my workstation scores 258.9 on the Dhrystone2-benchmark (and that's on one CPU) ;-)) ADDED I got mail from Peter, who's been so kind to run the Dhrystone2-benchmark on his ibook G4 1.2Ghz, results here ...if you got any results, being bogoiips or other, send'em in! ;-) LOL, I had quite some instability on my little server and I couldn't find out why... It seemed as unstable as Uranium-235... But I think I found it... Somehow something with the /cgi-bin/ -configuration wasn't quite right. It seemed the whole system came to a halt once somebody tried to got to that directory... But who or what? Well... get this: msnbot.msn.com - - [22/Dec/2004:21:37:19 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [23/Dec/2004:20:44:05 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [25/Dec/2004:17:02:48 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [26/Dec/2004:19:27:27 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [27/Dec/2004:05:36:59 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [29/Dec/2004:20:01:39 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [30/Dec/2004:09:48:28 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [30/Dec/2004:13:20:39 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [30/Dec/2004:16:16:00 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [31/Dec/2004:21:39:55 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [01/Jan/2005:22:36:17 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [02/Jan/2005:00:14:13 +0000] msnbot.msn.com - - [03/Jan/2005:05:21:32 +0000]Yes, that's right... the army of bots of Bill G. was responsible of putting down this server, ever more often! ;-) But, since that's solved now, go and write something in my guestbook or just view the messages There used to be a visitor counter overhere, but that one was totally irrelevant... every once in a while, when the machine halted for mysterious reasons, the counter got reset... In the first year this little server got something like 10000 visitors, since then Elsie lost count... more projects of mine can be found here Q:Noooooo, get out of here, there are more mac-addicts who did something similar? A:indeed... danamania's 605 32bitwonder.org There's even a 68K Mac Web Server Directory no sh*t! 
if you have any questions, mail me at: mark [at] geektechnique [dot] org (c) 2004 Mark mark.is-a-geek.org and my main page: geektechnique.org 
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