The RSTS.org domain has been running for the last decade on a single small Celeron 233 computer. This little white machine works great as a 30watt NAT firewall for a home network, but considering the 64meg of memory and 4gig disk drive, it really isn't up to the task of hosting any domains. I liked this little machine because it didn't take up much space and was a toss away computer from my former employer.

I recently acquired a dozen machines from the same employer while visiting last month. I thought they might make a nice cluster that I could put in a 7foot rack that I had laying around, and put it in a classroom. I haven't done that yet, but figured I could use a couple of them to host RSTS, as well as a number of other ".org" domains that I've been asked to build.

These machines that were headed for the trash heap are Gateway E2000's (2ghz) with 1gig of memory and 40gig Seagate disk drives. More than adequate to host the small amount of content that RSTS.org has online. They also (when idling) don't take any more juice to run than the NAT firewall does. I will probably put a couple of them up online for users to sample RSTS running under SimH.

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