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- From: c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 14:53:43 GMT
- Organization: News Server at UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education.
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- References: <4gojpu$pjf@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <4grj86$gsa@news.clinet.fi> <slrn44jc7kv.ifi.hkantola@vesuri.Helsinki.FI>
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- On 29 Feb 1996 21:47:01 GMT Heikki Kantola (hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
- > Juha Vanhanen <somebody@clinet.fi> provided the following
- > for the eyes of comp.sys.amiga.networking:
- > >
- > >I would also be interested in an IRC-server running
- > >on AmiTCP under AmigaDOS.
- ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
- > That is impossible as the ircd relies much on fork() and other Unix
- > specific things.
-
- He wanted an *Amiga* IRC server, not a Unix one. Read the posting
- again. Unix HTTP servers also rely on fork(), yet we have Amiga HTTP
- server software, and several web servers are run on Amigas.
-
- > And secondly IMHO there's quite enough IRC servers
- > around already...
-
- ??? They seem to be overloaded. More servers would make it possible to
- distribute the load.
-
- --
- Regards,
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