- From: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 02:34:44 -0400
- To: lazio@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu
- Cc: boo@best.com, www-html@w3.org
:> :>WIK> But they require separate, huge programs (seen Ghostscript or :>WIK> Acrobat?) for rendering. :> :> Probably part of Abigail's point. To do real page layout is :>difficult and (often) requires huge programs. I don't know what everyone is griping about with the large programs. Evidently nobody here has downloaded Netscape 3.0b4 with Live3d for the Mac. I don't own another single program that takes up that much space in memory while running. 18 Meg folks. Ghostscript doesn't take up that much space on any one of my Unix systems loading a 200 page document. Heck, INND only takes up a little more than that during nightly expires. Sorry folks, that old excuse of large helper programs doesn't cut it anymore except for the fact that if you don't have 32 Meg or more in just about any computer these days, your helper apps will choke because your browser has your system for lunch. Netscape wants to be making OS's in the near future, it looks like, even MacOS only takes 7 Meg with everything turned on, and I'm running a fully functional Unix system that does DNS, web service and routing on 8Meg and it does very well thanks. Matt
Received on Tuesday, 4 June 1996 02:35:12 UTC