> 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.
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.
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.
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.