[gopher] Gophernicus Server 0.6 released

[Mike Hebel]

On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:33 AM 4/12/10, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> (I teach AIX courses for living so I'm allowed to say this :-D )
>> If it works on AIX it works on *ANYTHING*.
>
> This is true. However, I'm one of those jackbooted thug (former)  
> sysadmins
> that actually likes AIX. gopher.ptloma.edu and the first incarnation  
> of
> gopher.floodgap.com ran on an Apple Network Server with a heavily  
> modified
> 4.1, and that server is still in service sending you this message.  
> I've been
> drinking the AIX Kool-Aid since 3.2.5, and I'm planning to get a  
> nice new
> POWER7 with AIX 6 next year.
>
> It drives people up the wall, but I've become accustomed to it, and  
> I miss
> smit when I have to administer other boxen.

That is incredibly cool dude. :-)

>> Actually, I was planning on testing with IRIX/mips
>> this week so I might as well install NetBSD somewhere and test with  
>> it too.
>
> I need to get my Indy up and running again. I did dig my Solbourne  
> S3000 out
> of the closet (OS/MP, a modified SunOS 4) but it needs a lot of TLC  
> to get
> it useful -- I only barely just got YP talking to DNS a week ago.

Now you're making me wonder if it could be run on VMS. I have a MVII,  
a Vaxstation 4000-60, and a set of MVIII boards I've been looking to  
install. :-)

--
Mike


"All we wanna do is eat your brains! We're not unreasonable, I mean no  
one's gonna eat your eyes." - Re: Brains, Jonathan Coultan