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Re: CHAT: browsers

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, February 10, 2003, 12:30
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. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Tristan <kesuari@...>