Re: SO5.1 & other office suites

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:43:31PM +0100, wulfie wrote:
> The rationale with web-based SO is that it runs on a monster application
> server so the result should be similar to running MS Office on a Winframe

	Running win2k for reliability, of course }:-)

> client over a similarly spec'ed comms link (or an ordinary Xterm) i.e.
> slow. All that should pass between server & client is the X display stuff
> so you wouldn't need the binaries, Java etc. locally, but that's still far
> too much for a 56K modem to handle.

	I thought that you'd have to still fetch the applets/java stuff
from the server. I don't see how you could have X calls going through
netscrape... It'd be fun to see that }:)

> I think Sun will be off to Casualty wih gunshot wounds to both feet.....

	Indeed! But I like the policy: we give everything away for free,
and then hope people will come and buy it back at some point. I shall
not complain!

	Regards,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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