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- From: Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr (Touliatos Panagiotis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: AWEB 1.0
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:21:35 GMT
- Organization: Hellas On Line
- Message-ID: <4042.6672T14T665@prometheus.hol.gr>
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- On 07-Apr-96 18:28:31 Henrik Dissing Wrote:
- >On 07-Apr-96 03:35:34, Touliatos Panagiotis wrote:
-
- >> MUI is a standard now,
-
- >No, it's not.
- ;-))) it will be.
-
- >> Amiga Surfer package have included mui 3.2,
-
- >Because some of the shareware clients they chose to bundle as a
- >poor mans Internet-in-a-Box, and over-charge, use it. That hardly makes
- >MUI a standard, and thank God for that!
-
- and why didn't take other non-mui appz for the surfer? like grapevine,aweb,ncftp
- and so on?
-
- >> the MUI is a very good OO GUI it deserves to be on every amiga.
-
- >Not on mine! I have nothing against the concept, but the implementation
- >is too slow and the configuration is rediculously complicated. How many
- is slow cause we don't have powerfull machines to run it, the configuration
- is exelent ,you can customize every aspect of your programms ,but i think that
- you don't care about this.
-
- >times have we seen the question: "How do I make AMosaic appear on a
- >screen of its own?"?
- Did you ever heard about RTFM?
- But no people says , too difficult to setup ,and they quit .
-
- >> The new OS's in every platform ,needs at least 8mb ram, how are
- >> you gonna run an efficient OS in 2mb ram?
-
- >Now that's intelligent argumentation: "PC's and Macs cannot run in 2 MB;
- Sorry but when my system boots up there left 1.8mb chip ram and 6,9mb fast ram.
- if i disable blizzard i get 370k free, if you can multitask with this ,then go
- ahead, but if you boot the default WB setup you have plenty of memmory for 1
- maybe 2 appz then what? .And to mention in order to have plenty of memmory in a
- 2mb system you have to set your desktop in 4 colors 640x256.
- No no no we don't need 800x600x24bit this is crap isn't it???
- No no we don't need built in TCP/IP support.
- No no we don't need Virtual memmory or memmory protection
- No no we don't need network support
- Sorry but i want these goodies in my OS .
- MUI offers a very good enchantment in gui dezign ,this is a step forward.
- Get real this isn't 1985 ,is 1996 and still the default workbench screen is
- 640x256 4 colors.
-
- >therefore, it's embarrasing that the Amiga can still do that and out-run
- >them both!". By all means, let's include MUI, then :-)
- it seems that you never looked windows 95,NT or OS/2, keep sleeping.
-
- >Where's the enhancement? I only see reduced speed and some useless
- >eye-candy. Okay, to the programmers it may be helpful, but this could
- >be achieved, at least to some extent, with other GUI engines.
- Maybe you are blind then.
-
- >> NewIcons is another one.
-
- >Again, it trades speed and disk space for some eye-candy. Bad judgement.
- yes you are right we must stick with the ugly 4 colors icons.
- No thanx.
- >But I agree that the pen-problem should be addressed in the next
- >OS version.
-
- >> EVERYTHING????? even the backrounds?? .... aahhh i forgot not html 3 on
- >> AWeb. I will use AWeb if : it uses more than one socket have full html 3
- >> support have disk caching option have nhtml support.
-
- >There's no such thing as "full html 3 support"; the standard has not
- >been defined yet. Nevertheless, it has been promised for the commercial
- get a document from docs/hyper witch discribes with full details HTML 3.
-
- >version of AWeb, together with nhtml (assuming you mean the non-standard crap
- >forced upon us by NetScape). And AWeb, in the freeware version, does use more
- non-standard??? ;-))) wake up!!! Netscape makes the standrds whatever you like it
- or not, and don't forget that allmost 90% of the internet users use Netscape
- Navigator the best browser out there.
-
- >than one socket. Actually, unlike IBrowse, there's no limit to the number of
- yes the 99 sockets is a very limited number, how much Aweb offers? about 1000
- or so?
-
- >But don't you see, that's the problem. It doesn't live for more than a
- >few minutes :-)
- in my machine lives for weeks without crashes.
-
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