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Article #5144Re: IRC request
From: Rask Lambertsen
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:53
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:53
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!oersted.gbar.dtu.dk!c948374 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. Message-ID: <4h731n$bj5@news.uni-c.dk> References: <4gojpu$pjf@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <4grj86$gsa@news.clinet.fi> <slrn44jc7kv.ifi.hkantola@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: oersted.gbar.dtu.dk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]