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> Of course, it goes without saying that my ancient iBook can’t run Slack Out of interest, I wonder what the minimum spec to run an IRC client is?
by zelos 6y ago
> Of course, it goes without saying that my ancient iBook can’t run Slack
Out of interest, I wonder what the minimum spec to run an IRC client is?
- bfuclusion 6y agoA 386 w/5mb of ram. Or at least it was when I was doing so in 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC
- einr 6y agoI see your 386 and raise you an 8088 at 4.77 MHz and 256K of RAM (or less, I'm not sure what the actual requirements of ircjr is if you want to push it): http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/IRCjr.html http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/IRCjr.html Really, it's just text, it doesn't matter. Literally any general purpose computer will run IRC if it can do TCP/IP and someone bothers to write a client.
- anthk 6y agoAdd Gopher to that stack too, with Gopherus.
- bfuclusion 6y agoNice. I have an old Cordata 8088 around somewhere at my parents house. I'll have to boot it up and see if I can get a network card for it.
- einr 6y agoIf you do want to pursue that, a couple of tips: Most ISA network cards are for the 16-bit bus, XT class machines only have 8-bit slots. This doesn't necessarily mean that the cards will not function, but you also need a packet driver and they very often use 186/286 instructions and will not run at all on an 8088. The Intel EtherExpress 8∕16 will work, so will the 3Com 3C501. You may also have some luck with generic NE1000/NE2000 clones.
- MrZammler 6y agoDepends on the platform, but I used to run AmIRC on an Amiga with a modest 68030 @ 50 Mhz :-) I think it did run ok also on a stock A1200 with a 14(!)Mhz 68020 processor and a couple of MB's of RAM.
- spiritplumber 6y agoCan confirm that you could do IRC just fine on a stock A1200. You can browse wikipedia on one of those, too.
- lloeki 6y agoI was running IRC on a Palm (IIIe IIRC), then a colour Sony Clié SJ-30, tethered via serial to a Sony Ericsson t68i phone that could do GPRS (Later had a W850).
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