[Hardware Question] What is the minamum hardware needed to run gemini

[Jason McBrayer]

Andrew Singleton writes:

> While in theory 'snythingbthst can display a terminal's is a good
> gemeni candidate, there is the problem of what it takes to run tls
> encode/decode.  So thebwudtion splits between what is a minamum to run
> gemini by itself. And whstbeoukd need an external device to act as
> mediation ksyervrorvenceyption? Example being that wifi to serial
> adaptor for retro hardware, but instead of just wifi, it handling the
> tls and either translating Gemini to gopher, or to a retro client that
> seeks a handshake from the dogkevso it knows not to even bother with
> encryption.

My *guess* is that, using real retro hardware, the minimum would be an
80386 or a 68020. OpenSSL will build for 386, but you have to specify
you want it at compile time, because the default x86 32-bit build
requires a 486.

Anything older than that, especially 8 or 16 bit micros, you'll need to
either use a TLS-terminating proxy on a modern small machine (like a Pi
Zero) that speaks either Gopher or a non-TLS Gemini variant (Mercury) to
the client, and Gemini to the server; or, as someone else suggested,
offload the TLS to a modern microcontroller somehow.

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