Re: In-kernel Gopher server

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 10:13:57 EST


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, John Bradford wrote:

> Maybe the wristwatch example was a bit extreme, but what about a
> system with very low bandwidth for connectivity? What if you were
> trying to get configuration data back from a spacecraft millions of
> miles away? At 300 BPS or less, and hours of latency, Gopher starts
> to look a bit more realistic than getting a shell prompt via ssh :-).

Ok so i've missed the point as to why we need it in the kernel.

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