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>Perhaps it's simply impractical on such modest hardware

I imagine it's not just the hardware limitations, but the available software. This one, for example being MS/DOS, where there were never really any serious server-side http/tcp implementations.

On the other hand, there were very busy BBS systems running on DOS where there had been time for years of various optimizations to happen.



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