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Wow, this is something. I recall (decades ago, so who knows how accurate) running Dillo under Enlightenment DR17 on a low-spec Pentium (perhaps) in the old era. Glad to see it's still kicking. The computer was too slow for the rest of the software of the era but Dillo was still fast!

I was very proud that I could call our home phone line and it would boot the computer if it was off. Most pointless feature ever, but I thought I was hot shit when I was a kid getting that to work.



That is cool though. was it an atx system with the power triggered some how?


You know, it's been decades and all I remember is the functionality rather than the implementation. It can't have just been some built-in Wake on Ring because I knew I had to do quite a bit of work to make it function (all just a matter of putting things together not that I wrote any code).

But an amusing follow-up is that I remember going to the Red Hat offices in Raleigh for an interview for an internship and actually describing the implementation as one of the things I'd done with a computer when I was much younger. It can't have been anything impressive because it didn't land with the interviewer. Silly naïveté of a child to think that's the kind of story you tell.

Probably all for the best in the end.




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