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

[Jason McBrayer]

Andrew Singleton writes:

> Did not know about the Mercury clients 9gemini minus crypto = mercury.
> Clever. Does make me wonder what an 'Apollo' would look like.
> Questions for later.)

The original analogy was that if Gopher was "Mercury" and HTTP was
"Apollo", then Gemini was trying to find the sweet spot between
them. Later, Solderpunk wrote up a "Mercury" spec as a kind of
argument/what-if, not as something that people should actually
implement. It's basically Gemini, but with no TLS, only one-character
response codes, and an even-more-simplified Gemtext that only includes
plain text and links as line types (no quotes, literals, or lists).

If I were actually going to implement a TLS-terminating Gemini proxy for
use with vintage computers, I'd probably have the client side speak
Gopher rather than encouraging people to actually implement Mercury.

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