[Coco] Coco on the internet

[Robert Layten]

Its interesting that people dump a 10 year old computer because it can't
render a webpage efficiently.  My Linux box is on a 12 year old computer
and it renders quite fast. There is only a second or so difference between
that and my quad core.

There is a web browser for the C64, but I don't think its been updated in
several years.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:

> On 3/16/2012 3:12 PM, Bill wrote:
>
>> First, is it possible for Coco to surf the internet, and second, what
>> does it take?
>>
>>
>>  First, modern webpage needs a modern computer.   Most web pages would
> never fix the memory of a CoCo 3 with 512k.  The CoCo graphics system could
> never handle the images or fonts.  Even if it could, it would takes minutes
> to build the webpage.
>
> I see many computer users dump a 10 year old computer because it takes to
> long to render a webpage.  Why would you think that a 30 your old computer
> could surf the web?
>
> Now, a CoCo could serve simple web pages.  I've used micro-controllers to
> server webpage as the user's front end and a CoCo could do the same.
>
> Steve
>
>
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