Re: Net Tools

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2lgnov$mpd@nkosi.well.com> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
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>I saw Mosaic the other day for the first time, and it completely knocked my
>socks off. That's a graphic based front end for WWW and apparently the
>source code is available. Would it be possible for someone to implement
>Mosaic for the Apple II?

Lynx could probably be ported to GNO; the only catch is it's copyrighted by
the University of Kansas.

[Lynx stuff deleted]

PT 3.1 works fine for me with Lynx.  Not sure what's going on there.

>The Mosaic I saw was connected to a "T-1" line that had a direct connect. I
>was just floored by what I saw. Huge graphic files spped through the net and
>were displayed in mind blowing photo-realistic manner, right from within
>Mosaic.

Moasic is avalible for X Windows/Unix, Windows 3.1 PCs, and System 7.x Macs.
I've used it on two of the three platforms, and it wasn't terribly speedy (but
then, our local net is pretty heavily loaded).

>What would it take? Am I dreaming to think I could use Mosaic on a GS?

A hellava lot better graphics and some form of TCP/IP (hi Derek!), ideally via
Ethernet card (SLIP would be pretty pitiful for the larger graphics, MPEGs,
and sounds....MPEGs on the GS, who am I kidding? :)

>It's kind of incredible that I've been using the net for probably 2 years,
>and seeing Mosaic, it was like I was seeing something different than I'd
>ever seen before. I was seeing the future. I haven't seen anything so that
>completely impressed me in a long long time...maybe never.

Heh heh heh.  Floored me pretty good too first time I saw it, but you can
quickly get a handle on it by realizing it's "HyperCard via TCP" :)

>Silly question...but...do people who access the net from school terminals
>get to use Mosaic?

Like I said, I've used it from the school's DECstations and Macs.  Cool stuff.



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