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to: Ron Hunter
from: Rodney Rudd of 1:138/245.0
date: 1995-09-21 01:02:51
subject: Re: Web browsing

            On Tuesday, September 19th, 1995 - Ron Hunter wrote:
 
 > will  require 4megs and a hard drive.
RH> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*
RH> Well, the limited alpha version I have (which some say DOES go 
RH> online) is only about 80k!  Add stuff for GIF and sound, and fonts, 
RH> and it should run on 1 meg.  After all, that's more than a 486 gets 
RH> to use on a DOS system...  But, like I said, what I really want is 
RH> the graphical user interface, point and click at the links, and 
RH> something that is GEM compatible.  It shouldn't need 10 meg of HD 
RH> space, either. Ron
 
I think Mosaic Netscape requires more than 1 meg on a PC, but maybe
you're right and the system resources need not be so high.  But if
you're going to store big JPEG or GIF pictures in memory along with the
other stuff that maintains the web browsing, then a lot of RAM will be
required.
 
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