Re: Possible web browser?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

The GEOS people created an operating system/GUI for the IBM that would
multitask on the humble 4.77 mhz 8088 (slowly). Currently they offer the
latest version with a graphical web browser, email, web editor and IRC
and the whole mess will work on an 80286. www.newdealinc.com if you want
to look at it. Hmmm, isn't the //gs about as powerful as an IBM AT??

Roy Miller

Ron Kneusel wrote:
> 
> Rob <roblk@[REMOVE]canada.com> wrote:
> >Has anybody checked out the QNX demo disk which contains  a full web
> >browser, a GUI, dialer, TCP/IP and OS on one 1.44 floppy  disk.
> 
> Yes.  It is impressive and I'll probably grab a copy of the OS when
> it becomes available for download.  However, if you read through
> the documentation on the floppy you'll see that while the software
> fits on the 1.44M disk it actually uses several MB of RAM when running
> because it loads everything off the disk, decompresses it, and then
> runs from RAM only (it doesn't access the floppy anymore).
> 
> Most IIgs computers have only 1-2MB of real RAM to work with.  Still,
> the idea might be possible on a smaller scale. (?)
> 
> So many potentially cool projects, so little free time! :(
> 
> Ron
> rkneusel@mcw.edu