Re: What is TCP/IP?

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <3qoi1s$r77@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>,
Philip McDunnough <philip@utstat.toronto.edu> wrote:
>In article <3qn3fo$sfd@kruuna.helsinki.fi> cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero  
>Sand) writes:
>
>[ ]
> 
>> Not true. There are at least two graphical Web browses for the PC that
>> don't require a TCP/IP or SLIP connection. Shouldn't be impossible for
>> the GS, either.
>> If such a program, or even a SLIP one, should materialize, and if it
>> utilized Second Sight, Jawaid would have at least one new customer.
>
>Well it is true that you can fake a SLIP/PPP connection in order to browse
>the web ( the Amiga has one, Compuserve has one in a sense but they are 
>in essence hiding their driver and the PC has several that are similar to 
>one on the Amiga- you need to have similar software running on your Unix
>host and that simply won't happen for most commercial Internet providers).  

I don't understand what you mean -- are you perhaps talking about TIA?
I'm not; I'm talking about SlipKnot and I-Comm, and they do not, repeat
not, require SLIP or fake-SLIP (a la TIA). They only require www or lynx.

>Philip McDunnough
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