Hey Kim

You much experience with Linux + Gopher?

James


On 3 Aug 2017 8:15 a.m., "Kim Holviala" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Might as well chime in :D
>
> I know more about the Gopher protocol than pretty much anyone (in 2017?
> how useful!) and I'm the author of pretty much the only remaining
> up-to-date gopher server software. Also own a M100, M102, NC100, Z88 +
> various other old laptops.
>
> The biggest problem implementing a gopher client is the lack of memory -
> it doesn't take a long article to fill up the ~20K that's available of the
> 32K free memory after counting in the gopher code. Other than that the
> protocol is dead simple, can be implemented without keeping state and needs
> no fuzzy parsing logic of any kind because it's very strict
> and hierarchical.
>
>
>
> - Kim
>
>
>
> On 03 Aug 2017, at 10:06, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ray I might like to bend your ear, as I've been toying with setting up
> gopher on my PiDP-8.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On 2 Aug 2017 11:24 p.m., "Ray Lopez" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I run a gopher server at gopher://ratthing.com.  It can be reached via
> http proxy at http://ratthing.com:7780.
>
> I'm always glad to help out with setting up or hosting services.
>
> RL
>
> On 8/2/17 8:03 AM, John Gardner wrote:
> > Something for you guys interested in getting on-line to think about...
> >
> >
> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwek8/long-live-
> gopher-the-techies-keeping-the-text-driven-internet-alive
>
>
>
>

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