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- From: qralston@GL.PITT.EDU (James Ralston Crawford)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: "slow networks"
- Message-ID: <9208270705.AA03528@apollo.gl.pitt.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 07:05:23 GMT
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- > > Designing a graphical user interface on the basis of "slow
- > > networks" is pretty stupid. But pointing that out to the UNIX
- > > community is wholely unproductive.
- >
- > Oh, come on Zalman. Are you saying that you don't run Andrew apps
- > to display on your RT at home over MCN & annex terminal servers via
- > SLIP at 19200 bps? I'm worried about these issues. The X
- > Consortium is worried too.
-
- Your point is valid, but my principal worry isn't SLIP at
- 19200bps, and won't be for quite some time. Mine is, quite frankly,
- seeing if there exists an AMS-ish mail reader that I can use at home,
- from my 2400bps vt100-type dialin. (Going to tell me to buy a
- 19200bps modem? Make a donation.)
-
- I have come to conclusion that at 2400bps, EZmail isn't so
- easy. I've tried Niftymail, but come to the conclusion that although
- better than EZmail, it isn't really that nifty, either. I've heard of
- CUI and VUI, but haven't had the time to try them out yet. I've heard
- of Batmail... as I understand it, an Emacs-extension of some sort...
- but I have yet to lay hands on it.
-
- So, a question to those of you who have to answer email via a
- plain dialin more than occasionally... what do you use? What would be
- ideal, IMHO, is something equivalent to elm, but understands the
- concept of AMS folders. So far, though, I've yet to be sufficiently
- impressed by something AMS-ish to switch over from traditional email,
- and elm.
-
- Regards,
-
- James
-
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