dialup Mosaic!!!!??

Is there anything to prevent a dialup Mosaic for,say,Macs from being written?
It would be _very_ popular...
-Chris.

> Is there anything to prevent a dialup Mosaic for,say,Macs from being
> written? It would be _very_ popular...

It is called SLIP/PPP.  It _is_ very popular, at least around here...

jim

ObCrypt:  My search for DC papers bore fruit when someone returned the 89
Eurocrypt papers to the library yesterday, but I am still searching for the
Boz (sp?) thesis that Tim mentioned was passed around at an early Bay area
CP meeting.  If anyone has a copy of this sitting around, please send me
some email.

Chris Beaumont writes:
> Is there anything to prevent a dialup Mosaic for,say,Macs from being written?
> It would be _very_ popular...

You can already run the Mac client over a MacSLIP connection.  Tho', even with
something like a 56Kb/s connection it's excruciatingly painfully slow.

The "problem" with Mosaic is that it makes you realize that Internet multi-
media hypertext applications require at least a T1 (1,544,000 bps) connection
to begin to be liveable.

I continue to be amazed at the fact that no matter how fast you go or how
much memory you buy it still only takes about eighteen months to go from the
leading edge to the lame edge.  I now find it hard to imagine that I would
ever make the statement "a 50Mb/s connection just isn't fast enough" -- I
well remember when I thought that a T1 was more then you could ever use, but
Mosaic just burns it up.  more! more! more! :-)

Jon