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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 06:07:50 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
- : Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- : > The solution is obviously to add something, AmiTCP, Envoy, or whatever
- : > they choose and let the use get the browsers and mailers they want.
-
- : Ok ok ok, but it should be simpler and smaller. A tcp.device and
- : ip.library or some such thing and one commodity to start it up instead of
- : a slew of unix like config files.
-
- Those really don't hurt a bit, and for people who know how to use them
- they are wonderful. What we DO need is a proper GUI front end that's
- simple, has extensive help built-in, and is mostly 'plug-n-play' - that
- would modify the files for you and hide all the stuff you don't need to
- see. In essense, by default it would be suitable for a typical SLIP/PPP
- connection, and by customization good for any TCP/IP task you throw at it.
-
- That way, it will be up and running for many users, but still accessable
- for power users and special needs.
-
- The one problem with the MacTCP/MacPPP (and the whole Mac system) is that
- there's very litte you can do BEYOND what they allow in the GUI. I've
- always seen the Amiga as a machine that could be both easy, yet have
- power AVAILABLE too. Just look at the synthesis of a combined shell and
- Workbench - I use both all the time.
-