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by cyberge99 1731 days ago
That’s the joke. ;) Believe it or not they existed (somewhat).
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One of the first ECN trading platforms, Island ECN, written by Josh Levine, ran on DOS. So I guess you could definitely say that was a “DOS server.”

He released the source code a few years ago:

http://www.josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_ECN

And still do