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Stop showing off, guys ... ;-) About 30 years ago, I let my Atari 1040STF (8Mhz, no hard drive...) scratching a floppy disk all night long to render this very b

• G3rn0ti 2y ago
  You ddos'ed your university home page. ;)
  • prox 2y ago
    No the Atari is still rendering to this day!
  • andrehacker 2y ago
    Maybe he'll get to use the "that would be impressive except if they had known what they were looking for,they would have seen it written on my dorm room window" quote later today.
• entropyie 2y ago
  Lol, I also have some povray renders still online on my uni page... Not linking though ;-)
• technothrasher 2y ago
  I feel like the privileged guy in the room, as I was running POV-Ray on a fancy new SPARCstation back in those days.
• chaboud 2y ago
  Seems like the Atari was repurposed into doing duty as a webserver… (Kidding. Posting links on HN is basically a community load test.)
  • dTal 2y ago
    I find it surprising that it would cause issues. There are as of this writing only 162 comments in the thread, which was posted 17 hours ago, and the (simple!) web page is still very slow to load. How much traffic slows down a static web page with a single image? Even if we stipulate a quite manageable 100 requests per second, that means 6 million people read this thread and decided to click that link. 6 million people and only 162 left a comment? Can that be right?
    • hifromwork 2y ago
      >Even if we stipulate a quite manageable 100 requests per second, Depends on the situation, but 100 requests/seconds sound like a lot to me (depending on how heavy the processing is, of course). And every page visit generates 8 requests, so that's "just" 12 people visiting per second.
• jbl0ndie 2y ago
  What were you modelling? Cyclopropane? I did something looking similar using a Fortran tool called Gaussian not long after.