OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Nov 21 10:55:17 2001

Just to get a feel for it, I used ICOMM for a short while. It worked as a
graphic web browser from a shell account. However, it did its dirty-work by
sending commands to the shell, so it put a considerable burden on the host. As
a result, it wasn't popular with the free shell account providers of the early
'90's. I'm thinking that the way Icomm worked, the host computer's IP stack is
what was doing the work.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: RE: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Iggy Drougge [mailto:optimus_at_canit.se]
>
> > 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.
> > But 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...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
> Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
> Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e '
> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> '
>
>
>
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