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- From: ilan@sn.no (Ilan Sharoni)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 05:11:18 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4cfk16$5es@sinsen.sn.no>
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- On 02-Jan-96 22:23:21, Remco van Hooff (rvhooff@globalxs.nl) Wrote:
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- IS> run TCP/IP program (why?)
-
- >Because it's a 'universal' way of connecting and if you would have all
- >stand-alone programs, you wouldn't be able to FTP, Browse the WWW and do
- >Email/news at the same time if you wanted.
- >I do, I download from Aminet, get/send my Email and news and browse the WWW
- >at the same time... sure it needs it's share of mem, but why not take
- >advantage of the multitasking OS?
-
- Good argument.
- But it is somthing that makes its work in the background, why is it so
- complicated to install and run? (and why is it not a part of the os?)
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- ilan
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