Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <391822FB.69A226E9@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
 
> Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote:
> 
>> Paul Schlyter (pausch@saafNOSPAM.se) wrote:
> 
>>: Next: try to log on with your 1 GHz peesee using a TCP/IP connection
>>: instead.  Surf the net with a graphical browser, run some nice Java
>>: applets, etc
> 
> I failed to notice what Paul said here. One thing I hate about web
> browsing is Java. If you go to a page that uses Java, everything
> stops while Java loads, and then things run slowly (at least on the
> 100 mhz machine that I use, and Paul, forgivably, over looked. BUT,
> then you move to a new page, and it uses Java, and what happens?
> Everything comes to a screeching halt, while Java reloads (aarrghh!!),
> and then slowly does it's thing. No thank you, I don't want to run
> Java on my PC, my Mac, and thank God, I can't run it on my Apple ][.
 
You do have a choice though: turn off Java on your web browser.
Or switch to Lynx (which deosn't run Java at all).
 
And of course, by declaring that you don't want to do anything which
cannot be done on the Apple II, you've implicitly declared that the
Apple II is enough for all your needs.....
 
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