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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) 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 ? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: 6 Feb 1996 21:10:53 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4f8g4t$2dh@news.quanta.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960204125419.17765B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <4e84c1$m0n@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com>?<4f2h1e$jo9@pub02.va.pubnix.com>?0 <4f4im9$9jt@bignews.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.next.misc:38722 comp.sys.next.programmer:22794 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2169 comp.sys.next.advocacy:32714 mmalcolm crawford (m.crawford@shef.ac.uk) wrote: : 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. It would just be nice to have 64bit filesystems. But a new NFS, and Kerberos would also be neat (nee-t-o). Most extras are sugar candy. Cheers, Ross Walker