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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 05:11:19 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4cfk17$5ev@sinsen.sn.no>
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- On 02-Jan-96 13:31:22, Angus Mann (mann@ipacific.net.au) Wrote:
-
- >How on earth can a web browser be stand-alone? You NEED a TCP/IP stack to
- >connect to the web. And you don't need your communications program to dial in
- >- use a simple dialer and put it in a script that also runs StartNet.
-
- >You say the because of that you almost never browse the web. Well since the
- >web is part of the Internet, and you need to use IPv4 to connect to the 'net,
- >it's not exactly a valid reason....
-
- When I write "overhead" I don't mean machine-overhead. Its my time that I
- spare.
- I want ALL my programms to be stand-alone, or supplied with a script for
- Commodore's Instaler.
- Its a matter of preferences actualy, some like it, some don't.
- I'm looking forwards to debugging an Arexx script, the same way I am looking
- forwards to visiting my dentist.
-
- What's happend to the user-friendlyness of the Amiga OS? communication is the
- future for home-computers. The amiga has very limited future if it will be
- more complicated then a dishwasher.
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-
-
- ilan
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