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From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Wed Nov 21 10:12:37 2001

> > What kind of bollocks is that? How do you expect to run a web
> > browser without
> > a TCP/IP stack? I suppose you wouldn't fancy Netscape on the
> > Mac any more,
> > since you had to buy MacTCP in order to run that.
> > Buyt then again, what browser doesn't require a TCP/IP stack
> > in order to be
> > used online?
>
> I believe there was at least one MS-DOS browser that didn't (doesn't)
> require a _separate_ stack. That is, since it is built into the browser.
>
> There is also slipknot(slipnot?), which acts as a front-end to a
> shell-account with lynx. :) (That's an interesting program...)
>
omigod! Talk about latency issues!!! :D

Bryan
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 10:12:37 GMT

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