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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!emv
- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: More bugs gopher1.1b1 (beta programmers as well as code)
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:06:53 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Message-ID: <1edt7rINN1sl@nigel.msen.com>
- References: <mtm.722068331@CAMIS>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
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- the gopher server code should be thought of as roughly in the same
- stage that 'A News' software was; people were pretty sure that it would
- be used by three or four sites for a couple messages a day, tops.
- no one on the nets plans for explosive growth, not for services
- they're not sure are going to exist tommorow let alone be scattered
- throughout the planet.
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- now, this should be a heartening analogy, since A News begat B News
- which begat C News which begat INN. Four new-from-scratch implementations
- of the same protocol in 10 yrs is not bad at all.
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- I have a hunch that a competent perl programmer could put together a
- bare bones totally new server in a fairly short amount of time, either
- of the traditional "it's a file system" model plopped down on a bunch of
- directories or some kind of "it's a database" model stuck in in front
- of dbm or oracle or sybase databases. The protocol per se is just not
- that complicated.
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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