Re: CHAT: browsers

En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:

>
> Well, you can get VMWare for Windows NT, so it's not opposite.
>
But what's the point of it? Running Windows under Windows? ;)))

>
> So it's really cheating, isn't it? It still uses however much RAM
> Internet Explorer uses so it isn't really the smallest browser.
Since IE doesn't use that much RAM in itself, it's not much of a problem. And I
never said it was not cheating :)) .

> Netscape
> Mosaic 0.9 (a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0) could fit on a
> floppy disk; I don't think you'd ever be able to do that to IE. (I've
> heard of another browser that advertises it can fit on a floppy, but
> given it claims to support ActiveX controls (or whatever they are),
> I'm
> guessing it cheats as well.)
>
I've found quite a few browsers around at download.com.com that could largely
fit in a floppy (actually, you could put a few of them in that floppy ;))) ).
But I don't know how good they are.

>
> Do you actually mean 50 kilobits?
Nope, 50 kilo*bytes*. I thought kilobits were only ever use to evaluate
transfer speeds and thus there was no ambiguity possible in normal use. I
wasn't trying to be confusing here :) .

 I don't think it's possible to write
> a
>    Windows program in that little space.
Maybe a "Hello World" program? ;)))

 Normally I'd assume you meant
> 50 kibibytes (50 KiB), but you normally use o for (8-bit) bytes
Well, I didn't use it for about two years now (at least when I write in
English. It's standard "octet" in French :)) ). If I did, it was a typo :) .

 (which
> I
> advocate given that no-one seems to remember the difference between b
> and B,
True, but usually bits and bytes are used in different contexts, so the
ambiguity that arises is usually minimum.

 any more than m and M

That's a bigger fault.

(440 ML cans certainly are giant, but I
> don't think they could fit one, let alone 24 in a box that small).
LOL.

 The
> metric system might be brilliantly simple to use, but whoever decided
> how to write it has a lot to answer for).
>
Well, that's just because people don't seem to pay attention in your parts of
the world. Here I've never seen anyone writing M for m for instance. Only in
the computer world I can see sometimes the wrong capitalisation, but then if
you manage to get a mb of something warn me! (even a mB would be difficult to
get! ;)) )

Christophe.

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