Re: SO and all that

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Jose (and Al)

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

>         Apparently, the idea is called SO-portal (or star portal) if I'm
> not too mistaken, but it'd basically be a version of SO in Java, so that
> you can launch it off your fave browser. How they will accomplish this,
> when even in a decent PC with linux and a fair amount of memory it's
> sluggish at best... Just imagine the extra burden of bandwidth and all
> that (all that meaning Java).

I can't even begin to imagine how this could work over a dialup
connection.  I'm using ISDN at 64K and it's so slow that I can just
about send and receive e-mail.  Downloading files is impossible.  I've
used Outlook Express over a dialup link from here to Liverpool.  It
worked once.  So, where do MS and Sun get their ideas from ?  A mental
hospital ?

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK


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