On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> >
> > > John Hasler wrote:
> > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol.
> > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a
> > > > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX
> > > > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband
> > > > can easily handle it now.
> > >
> > > ....
> > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill.
> > >
> >
> > Then my Arduino Mega is full-on High Performance Computing ????
>
> By the standards of 1975, it is a minicomputer suitable for
> supporting a business with four terminals: accounting, sales,
> secretarial, and production.
To resurrect another paleontological meme (the older among us
will know): "can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?" [1],
[2] (How time passes: ref [2] tells me the joke was already
"pathetic" and "died a long time ago" in... 2005 :-)
Now it must be said :-)
In 1998 I was running usenet's 19th largest NNTP transit point. On a discarded Pentium with a 100Mbit ethernet card for external comms.
Luckily I could attach it to a full-duplex port on a router, not half-duplex. Way more effective bandwidth :-D