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

[The Doctor]

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On Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 at 07:40, Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> wrote:

> 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.

This makes me wonder if anybody's written a version for the 6502 or 6510.  It seems
like a thing that could be run on, say, a C64 (which is what I'm thinking).

> 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

Doable.

> 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.

Or, maybe the core of a Zimodem running an ESP32 or ESP8266 (https://github.com/bozimmerman/Zimodem)?

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