Rice CMS Gopher Server and Client (ver 2.4.2) Freeware The Rice Gopher was developed by Rick Troth of Rice University, Texas. The distribution file contains both a Gopher server and Gopher client for the IBM CMS (VM/CMS) mainframe operating system (because I have no ability to separate the server from the client). The server is based on RXSOCKET (requires TCP/IP version 2) and CMS Pipelines.