[Coco] www on coco

[Christopher Hawks]

Joel Ewy wrote:
> David Roper wrote:
>> Ok, so lets put our reality hats on for a moment -
>>
>> What's stopping the coco from being linked in to an alread-established
>> home network and actively using www and email?
>>
>> - David
>>
> One way to do it is to use other computers as helpers.  Of course you
> could use a terminal program to hook up to a *N?X box running something
> like Lynx, or Links -- I (and I'm sure others on this list) actually did
> this back in the day.  But that's not really what I think you're going
> for, and it doesn't quite satisfy my desire either.
[...]
> Why not write our own proxy server program that can run on a faster PC
> and do some of the heavy lifting for the CoCo, while still leaving
> enough work for the CoCo so that it's not just being a terminal
> emulator.  I'm thinking of something in Perl perhaps, that would use
> existing utilities to fetch web objects, scale and convert images, and
> filter the HTML to the point that it's useful to the CoCo.
[...]

	Sounds like you are talking about Plucker (www.plkr.org). Plucker does 
this for Palms down to the the Palm Pilot 2 or up to the New XScale palms.

	Maybe someone should write a Plucker Viewer for the Coco...

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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