Re: NUTS!

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 03:33:27 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>For example, the best machine for accessing the internet is probably a
>modern PC or Mac. The IIgs currently lacks the speed, memory, and
>display required for decent internet access.

I disagree.  The IIgs is more than capable of accessing the internet.

If you start talking about accessing web sites with lots of graphics,
java applets, plug-in content etc., then you would be right but the
web is not the internet.

E-mail, newsgroups, telnet, ftp, irc, many web pages and other
services on the internet simply deal with 7 or 8 bit data.  Nothing a
IIgs can't handle.

By the way, I do believe a graphical web browser would be possible on
an accelerated IIgs.  However, at present it would require a fair bit
of playing around with text edit controls.  Personally, it would make
writing a better web browser much easier if the TextEdit tool set was
updated to at least support multiple rulers.

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