LIst server or phpBB on Pi?

It's just a Linux box. Google for doing this on any Linux box and there is a good chance it'll "just work" on the Pi.

Gordon

It is a Linux box with limited resources both in CPU and memory.

I was hoping someone had already tried this and found a resource lean solution which "just worked".

Cheers

Dave R

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Large mailing lists used to run on 486 machines with 16MB of RAM - a Pi should be fine.

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17? years ago I was running desktop Linux on a P166MMX with 32MB RAM and a 540MB hard drive (and on a 486SX25 with 4MB? RAM as a dialup firewall router). Avoid the modern desktops and resource-intensive apps, and you can do pretty much the same today (although I suspect most distros support a minimum i586 or later instruction set).

This is a possibility, though from the comments and documentation configuring it seems non-trivial.

P166MMX with 32MB RAM? You lucky, lucky bastard.

I used to run a mainframe service for 50,000 users using just a soggy cardboard box, a 6V motorcycle battery and a pair of corroded crocodile clips..........

Yes, looking back to systems rated in Kips it is amazing what we used to do with something less powerful than a digital watch.

I guess I have become used to the never ending bloat which seems to have overtaken the desktop versions of Linux as well.

Thanks to all for the reminder.

Cheers

Dave R

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Very much of the bloat is down to the use of graphical screens, just as putting your photos and videos on disk hugely inflates disk requirements.

Example: during the '80s we were using a medium sized mainframe that was running 10-12 systems that used what were considered to be moderately large databases for the era and supported around 3-400 green-screen character-mode terminals that accessed the databases. These mainframes had 8 MB of RAM, about 200 GB of disk storage and ran at a 2MHz clock speed.

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200 GB? That's huge for a machine of that age. The medium mainframe that I worked on in the '80s had 16 MB of RAM and around 3 GB of disk storage (later upgraded to around 12 GB). That ran several systems with about 600 terminals and a load of databases, two of which were considered fairly large.

The disks consisted of 11 of the usual 150 MB top-loader drives, and 4 of the new 500 MB sealed units.

I was thinking of an ICL 2966 I used to work with. IIRC it had 40 disk drives but I forget whether they were EDS200s, EDS640s or possibly a mixture of the two.

Actually, the room held two 2966s (production and development systems) and a switchboard like a railway shunting yard that determined which disks, tapes, comms processors etc were attached to what processor. The Dev machine was also backup to Prod, so if Prod died, Dev was taken down, the production disks etc were switched over it and it came up as Prod. The total downtime was the time it took to kick us off Dev, change the switches and reboot. Didn't happen often. Should you want to see one of these Burnt Orange beasts, the ex Tarmac one is at Bletchley Park in the Museum Of Computing but AFAIK its not yet running.

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Assuming that it was running VME/B and not some far superior operating system under DME George 3 did you have a very formalised ritual sacrifice for any Operator who dropped the rep pack?

Back in the mists of history now, as is the unusual experience of training back from hexadecimal to octal, but I recall around 10 EDS 200s and a whole warehouse of magnetic tape.

Let us see...10 * EDS200 = 2GB?

So 200GB would be equivalent to 10 * 100 = 1,000 EDS 200s? I gave all this up in early 1984 and didn't keep track of storage updates, but this does seem a large figure for online storage around that time.

For even more techno obscurity I remember the close down ceremony from one of the last LEO 326 machines. Now that was a real computer. Bad block on tape, stop and wiggle the tape by hand until it was read. Watch the instructions execute, shown by flashing lights. Stop the program and step back by hand. Tell that to the kids of today....

Nurse! Nurse! The bedp....oh, never mind.

Cheers

Dave R

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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:24:11 +0100, Dom declaimed the following:

Missed it the first time through... Not sure what the department systems had in storage in the 80s... My college mainframe was an ancient device that, as I recall, was actually using twice the RAM it had been designed to use -- the four cabinets that used to hold core now held one card each of static RAM chips, 256kB each cabinet. I remember the summer they put the two new disk drives online -- each of 300MB (as I recall, dedicated to virtual memory swap space; user accounts were still distributed across the 6 [or was it 8] 100MB [10 or 11 platter] packs). Used to support around 50-60 active terminals with reasonable response times.

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It's a good while ago now but IIRC we had 17 or 18 EDS60s (three controllers, six spindles per controller except that I have a feeling we just had 5 on one) to handle all of West Midland Gas's storage requirements on the live machine when we were running 1900s. Similar number of EDS200s when we went to 2900s on VME/B, then we got an Eagle drum (well, not a drum as earlier generations would remember but I presume a fixed head multi-platter) which held, er, lots. Well, lots in comparison, anyway. So I started out in an environment where we had just over 1GB of storage in 17 or 18 boxes the size of washing machines, and now I have 32GB of storage on my phone.

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There are a couple of ways to attack this problem. But if you don't or can't get a mail exchange record into a DNS server, a mailing list (mailman, smartlist) will be of limited use to you.

PHPbb looks like it is reasonable, if you pick a relatively light weight web server and/or SQL database server. You can check the dependencies here:

and it is in the raspbian archive:

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Wasn't the Eagle made by Fujitsu. Had some moveable heads running up and down some platters and some fixed heads on a another platter for a smaller amount of relatively fast storage. I don't remember if it had an exchangeable pack but I don't think so if I'm thinking of the right drive, I went to Fujitsu on a four day maintenance course on them back in the eighties.

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Sorry: that could only have been 25GB at the most if all disks were EDS640s and 8 GB if everything was on EDS200. I must have dropped a decimal point: I know it had 40 drives distributes unequally between Dev and Prod and that they were a mix of EDS200 and EDS640, but I never did know the relative proportions.

I was on that site about 4 years. We were running DME when I first got there while the older systems moved from G3 to VME/B. However, the group I was on when straight onto courses covering SCL, TPMS and IDMSX and were developing new stuff under VME/B from the off. Before that I spent a number of years programming and sysadminning OLDAS, UDAS, and all the Georges except 4, ending up at the British Steel Labs in Battersea running their G3 setup on a nicely equipped 1904T.

BTW, did you know the 2966 was based round a 2MHz Motorola 6809? That was what ran the microcode...

I missed those, but did learn Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 and worked with a girl who had serious time programmming a KDF-6 (1/4" tape, no disks or control keyboard).

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Thanks.

Very useful information.

Cheers

Dave R

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