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> we're able to run a whole digital social club off it (a small VM) because we use text-based interfaces. I'm not sure it's really the reason. You could probab
by speedgoose 4y ago
> we're able to run a whole digital social club off it (a small VM) because we use text-based interfaces.
I'm not sure it's really the reason. You could probably have performances in the same order of magnitude by sending JSON or simple HTML.
- echoradio 4y agoExcept those add layers of complexity. I don’t know if rawtext.club supports UTF-8, but if they only use ASCII, that would be a constraint I’m not sure can be matched in simplicity for both user and computer.
- speedgoose 4y agoBut it has nothing to do with performances.
- throwaway81523 4y ago> > (a small VM) By old standards it's a huge server with a gigabyte of RAM memory and tens of GB of disk (maybe even SSD). Traditional text BBS's ran on 8 bit microcomputers with 64KB of memory and maybe some floppy disks, or perhaps a hard disk in the tens of megabytes, I thought. I do like the idea of raw text. Leopold Kronecker famously said that God created ASCII, but Unicode is the work of man. Or something like that.
- speedgoose 4y agoCan't be him even with a time machine, ASCII is missing 4 letters of his language.
- avlevy-ms 4y agogp was making a reference to Kronecker's quote "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" (God made the integers, all else is the work of man)
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoBut most BBSes were heavy on ANSI and ANSI art so I don't think "raw text" is an accurate recollection.