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Re: Network Abuse by Netscape? -- Was: Mosaic replacements, etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Andreessen)
Tue Oct 25 12:07:53 1994
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:03:07 +0100
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From: marca@neon.mcom.com (Marc Andreessen)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>Netscape retrieves the document and as it reads it --character by
>character-- immediately initiates requests for all of the graphical
>elements on the document as they are seen, opening a socket request for
>each element. Those requests are fulfilled on seperate virtual circuts
>and the data then comes crashing down the pipe, to be displayed on the
>user's screen. (Marc, please correct me if I am wrong.)
You're wrong. By default, Netscape only uses a maximum of four
simultaneous connections at once. I don't know what WebExplorer does.
Marc
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Marc Andreessen
Mosaic Communications Corporation
Mountain View, CA
marca@mcom.com
