Christopher Smith skrev:
>> -----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.
>> 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.
Now, there's a stupid idea. What a stupid, stupid idea. Let's all laugh and
point at the stupid browser and its stupid creators. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
>There is also slipknot(slipnot?), which acts as a front-end to a
>shell-account with lynx. :) (That's an interesting program...)
Agreed, that's an interesting program. There was a similar contraption for the
Amiga, called MLink, though that did AFAIK behave as a bsdsocket.library so
that one might run most normal applications.
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Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:12:29 GMT