[Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 11 Mar 2009 at 17:56, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:30:27PM -0400, jdaggett at gate.net wrote: >
> On 11 Mar 2009 at 14:28, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10,
> 2009 at 10:37:03PM -0400, jdaggett at gate.net wrote: > > > First off you
> need some means of connecting to the internet either > > through > a
> modem or through a PC/MAC. Then you can think about a web > > browser.
> > Can't put the cart before the horse or the cart wont go > >
> anywhere. > > > > I think he was presuming to use the "get any file
> via http" feature of > > CoCoNet to account for the communications
> piece... > > > > John > > Yes that would work if you don't mind 56K
> dial up speeds. 
> 
> Probably 115k or so FWIW, but I doubt the coco could eat the data much
> faster than that anyway.
> 
> > Better off would be to have a dedicated hardware that floated on the
> > buss that did all the TCP/IP stuff and hooked up to a router to do
> > the PPPOE stuff. It would be faster. 
> 
> Sure, but so would just using a PC... :-)
> 
> > Sorry I am not thrilled with dial up speeds for internet
> > connections. Even on  Coco3. Roger's BT and Boisey's Drivewire are
> > fine products for what they do and do best. Trying to put web
> > browser traffic over it to a PC or a MAC to gain internet is not
> > efficient or cost effective in my opinion. 
> 
> No probably not.  But it would be a damned cool project for someone
> that would enjoy that as a hobby. :-)
> 
> John


Yes it is one of those projects to say I did it so that I can prove it can be 
done type feelings. 

james