[Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?

[Tim Fadden]

Cost/time effective?  We are talking about a COCO right?  If these are 
your concerns, why do you even mess with a CoCo in the first place?

I do it for the fun of it.   If I wanted fast and glitzy, I would be 
using my quad core 3 gig machine.

Tim.

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2009 at 17:56, John W. Linville wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:30:27PM -0400, jdaggett at gate.net wrote: >
>> On 11 Mar 2009 at 14:28, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10,
>> 2009 at 10:37:03PM -0400, jdaggett at gate.net wrote: > > > First off you
>> need some means of connecting to the internet either > > through > a
>> modem or through a PC/MAC. Then you can think about a web > > browser.
>>     
>>> Can't put the cart before the horse or the cart wont go > >
>>>       
>> anywhere. > > > > I think he was presuming to use the "get any file
>> via http" feature of > > CoCoNet to account for the communications
>> piece... > > > > John > > Yes that would work if you don't mind 56K
>> dial up speeds. 
>>
>> Probably 115k or so FWIW, but I doubt the coco could eat the data much
>> faster than that anyway.
>>
>>     
>>> Better off would be to have a dedicated hardware that floated on the
>>> buss that did all the TCP/IP stuff and hooked up to a router to do
>>> the PPPOE stuff. It would be faster. 
>>>       
>> Sure, but so would just using a PC... :-)
>>
>>     
>>> Sorry I am not thrilled with dial up speeds for internet
>>> connections. Even on  Coco3. Roger's BT and Boisey's Drivewire are
>>> fine products for what they do and do best. Trying to put web
>>> browser traffic over it to a PC or a MAC to gain internet is not
>>> efficient or cost effective in my opinion. 
>>>       
>> No probably not.  But it would be a damned cool project for someone
>> that would enjoy that as a hobby. :-)
>>
>> John
>>     
>
>
> Yes it is one of those projects to say I did it so that I can prove it can be 
> done type feelings. 
>
> james
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