Re: Future Developments

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John King wrote in message <92amk0$qr$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>...

>Maybe you're not implying this .... but what's so bad about a shell
account?
>There are still available, there are good newsreaders like Tin, good
>browsers like Lynx, and good ISP's like Eskimo (no I don't work for them).
>
>People act like shell accounts are bad or evil, in fact they are excellent
>and a good match for an Apple II.
>
>Even if you had the software you still end up trying to sling around a GUI
>and that's always tough for a 1 to 2.8 MHz CPU.


The real question is this. If gui's are unrealistic, it would seem the
implication that command line versions of net clients are reasonable. If so,
why not native command line apps, instead of shell accounts? It can't be
that horrible a task, for an a2 to parse out the text of a html file, can
it?

John
John Oyler
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jojo4@va.mediaone.net