Re: SO5.1 & other office suites

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, wulfie wrote:

> I'd like to see a full version of Applix in action - the black & white
> demo version in SuSE is pretty naff.  

At the recent Linux expo I started the wordpro on an alpha.  It was up before
the mouse button returned from the click, really eerie!

> 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
> 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.

My ADSL arrives next Thursday :-P not much a month for oodles of bandwidth.

Damion

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