Re: 11GS Mosaic

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Brian D. Uhreen (bduhreen@freenet.calgary.ab.ca) wrote:
: Ok..I can see the RAM and I can see an accelerator...I can even see the 
: requirement of a second sight board......unfortuantly I don't see the 
: GNO/ME part of this.  If I understand correctly GNO/ME is a unix shell 
: for the IIGS enviroment.  It may just be me but I actualy like the 

It's more like a true UNIX environment as far as you can push it on the GS,
multitasking et al minus memory protection and lots of virtual memory.

: finder.  I have used windoze useing tumpet/windsock to enter the net...	
: as far as I can see trumpet just adds the ability to use sockets (which 
: allow the ablitly to look for network events in the background).  Why 
: could this not be added into the finder or even an application with the 
: option of running it with the manager (or your favorite multi-tasker).

It probably can when tcp/ip moves over to the desktop.  But as of now,
it's being developed on GNO/ME so the quickest way to use it would be to
use GNO/ME, if tcpip comes out of beta. :)

Joseph
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