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- From: perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 23:38:04 GMT
- Organization: The Shadows' Parking lot
- Message-ID: <4cuu8s$j9u@news.uni-c.dk>
- References: <4bsmp3$3sl@spectator.cris.com> <4c78ae$pr4@sinsen.sn.no> <1338.6574T1174T843@midland.co.nz> <4cde4f$h0f@news.uni-c.dk> <4cfc0r$k0k@natasha.rmii.com> <4cg0ln$3pt@news.uni-c.dk> <4ci2bn$rve@natasha.rmii.com>
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- > Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
- > : Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
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- > : > That's what the Macintosh is all about: user-proof, just click to install
- > : > software.
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- > : And Amigas are supposed to be difficult? What imbecilic nonsense. Mac
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- > No, but if you want it NOW it's there. That's my point.
-
- I know it's not here NOW, that is my point. And that is the problem, we
- need it here now, infact we need it here yesterday.
-
- > Dumping a seperate TCP/IP stack isn't the way to do it. Either you must
- > build it into every program (which makes multitasking senseless - it would
- > hog too much memory) or you must create a total 'internet' software
- > package which would ALSO be large, but then you couldn't add things like
- > your *preferred* mailer, newsreader, etc.
-
- > 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.
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