Re: IIGS specific graphics web browser for IIGS specific web sites!

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:34:41 -0500, jaunt5ft@apk.net (Brian Gillespie)
wrote:

|>In article <19981016121615.26545.00001541@ng08.aol.com>, skibumoh@aol.com
|>(SkibumOh) wrote:
|>
|>> Why not just surf on the PC or MAC???
|>> -Michael Lis
|>> Newbie GS'er
|>
|>What I was suggesting was several PC's acting as "go betweens" to relay
|>all requests for web pages and images. They would pass through the
|>text of the page unchanged, but convert the jpegs and gifs to apple format
|>before relaying them to the IIGS user. This way, thousands of IIgs users 
|>could see real web page images, fast, with only their IIGS.

actually, i think what you're suggesting would be realistic...
consider:

since there were no Ethernet cards for the II series in production
(aside from those made for development), we'll use a situation where
several //gs machines are connected via serial ports to the serial
ports of a Linux machine that is connected to the 'Net.  Assume the
Linux box has a few of those multi-serial port cards.

in this sort of configuration, it's within the realm of possibility to
have the Linux machine act as a proxy server of sorts, where it would
translate the incoming pictures as necessary for viewing on the GS
machines.  this way, you could have a DEC Alpha/PP400+/whatever doing
the work.

the GS systems could be connected to the Linux box via serial line
with Mr. Bennett's Marinetti (fine program!) or SIS...  i was
disappointed to learn last night that Mr. Bennett has decided to stop
any/all work on Marinetti because of someone on CSA2.  <sigh>  that's
a shame, because the one feature that would have been icing on the
cake would be support for Microsoft's PROPRITARY flavor of the PPP
protocol....  8\

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William Smith
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