Re: NetScape 5

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> writes:
>>>>>> "RC" == Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com> writes:
> RC> Netscape 5 is coming out soon and it will be only 5megs
> RC> I do not see whay we can't make a netscape for the GS.
> RC> Please tell me what your think on this mater

>It may take 5MB of text, but it certainly takes a lot more in memory
>(on Solaris it is from 20-100MB).

>There is nothing preventing a Netscape-like browser to be ported to
>GS/OS, but it just takes effort.  N5 is the collective effort of
>several hundred Netscape employees and hundreds of people on the net.
>Not an easy task for the handful of GS programmers who would be
>qualified to do so.

We might have better luck with Opera - it is much smaller than Netscape. See
http://www.operasoftware.com/alt_os.html for information on attempts to port to
Amiga, MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, Linux & Psion/EPOC32.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au