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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!primus.ac.net!news.cais.net!xara.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!bignews.shef.ac.uk!usenet From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXTBSD - 4.4BSD For NeXTstep machines ? Date: 5 Feb 1996 09:29:45 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4f4im9$9jt@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>?<4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com>?0 Reply-To: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: daneel.dcs.shef.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> X-Newsreader: NewsFlash [$Revision: 2.104 $] NF-U-00083 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.next.misc:38720 comp.sys.next.programmer:22789 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2165 comp.sys.next.advocacy:32708 On 02/04/96, Mark Crispin wrote: > It would also open up the possibility of running real Web browsers, > instead of trash like OmniWeb. When a dinky 68030 Mac PowerBook 165c does > a better job on the Web than an "insanely great" NEXTSTEP system, that > says something very sad. > Umm, Mark, which version of OmniWeb are you running? IMHO version 2 (albeit in beta) blows away NetScape for elegance, robustness and general ease of use -- the chaps from Lighthouse/Omni even seemed to have frames working properly before NetScape. Best wishes, mmalc. --