Re: WEB machine

[scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net ()]

In article <cu43966@pro-novapple.clark.net>, Rick Krieger wrote:
>I've just finished reading some articles on the proposed "Web" machines
>and the challenge to produce them < $500 and have an OS that will fit
>in 1 meg ROM.  I'm no OS expert but would one of the Apple II OS's fit
>the bill?  Either GSOS, ProDOS (wasn't there a GUI recently introduced
>for ProDOS called Desktop II or something?), or GEOS (I believe there
>was an Apple II version)?  If the OS would work could an Apple II be
>built cheap and fast enough to compete?

I posted a message like yours over a year ago, and directed it
towards Jawaid and the other IIGS lords who could make it 
happen.  Could it be done?  Yep.  Would it be done?  Nope.
Take a IIGS, a SecondSight card, a 28.8k modem, and a custom
ProDOS-8 based (to boot fast and get on the metal of the GS)
system, and you have a damn decent web browser, at a cost
around $500.

Feeling full of myself with this wonderful idea, I also
sent it to the editors as PC-Week when they originally
first covered the "Web Computer" hysteria.  They had the
same response as Jawaid, et al:  silence.


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