| I meant, well, not 8 bit capable, but you can send the generated text files to them. On 'gnuplot' for cp/m... doing a simple chart from X and Y values in TSV paired in two colums can be done either from forth or pascal or whatever you have to read two arrays. I'm not stating a solution to read future PDF files. Forget the future ones; what I mean it's to 'convert' the ones we currently have. I'm at a Spanish pubnix/tilde, a public unix server. Here I have a script which converts -with the help of a Cron job and sfeed-, RSS feeds into plain text to be readable over gopher. These can be read even from the crustiest DOS machines in Latin America and Windows 95/98/XP machines. I even pointed a working Retrozilla release, and it's spreading out quickly. They are at least able to read news too with a gopher/gemini client and News Waffle, with a client written in TCL/TK saving tons of bandwidth. The port with IronTCL will work in the spot on XP machines. Download, decompress, run 'launch.bat' (lanzar.bar in Spanish).
The ZIP file weights 15MB. No SSE2 it's required. Neither tons of RAM. Compare that to a Chrome install. And Chrome requeriments. The 2nd/3rd world might not be under an apocalipse, but they don't have the reliability of the first world. And lots of folks adored the News Waffle service saving a 95% of the bandwidth. Instead of the apocalipse, think about 3rd world guys or the rural America. Somethink like https://lite.cnn.com and https://neuters.de will work even under natural disasters with really reduced bandwidth data. Or https://telae.net for Google Maps searchs. gopher://magical.fish has news feeds, an English to French/Spanish and so on translator , good links to blogs, games and even TPB search. These can be run on any machine, or Lagrange under Android. And, yes, it might work better under a potential earthquake/flood than
the web. |