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- From: jlidstro@bd.edu.amu.se (John F. Lidstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: -----> X-Windows on Amiga <--------
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 19:59:21 GMT
- Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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- In a message 09-Mar-96 22:34:18 about Re: -----> X-Windows on Amiga <--------
- Bruce Albrecht wrote those nice words....
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- BA> Having said this, I really don't think you'll want to run netscape
- BA> from a dialup, because it will be unbearably slow. All of the
- BA> graphics will be sent to your machine at 14.4K, or 28.8K, and it will
- BA> take much longer to display anything on netscape than it would take to
- BA> display it using a browser running on your Amiga.
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- Then I have to ask (maybe a stupid) question... =o)
- Where is the potential in this application?
- What *can* you use it for with a good result?
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- <sb> Hex@Undernet
- <sb> PGP Key available at request
- <sb> http://pcnet3.bd.edu.amu.se/~jlidstro/
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