[11206] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Rarey)
Fri Mar 25 06:27:28 1994
From: Paul Rarey <Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 07:00:40 PST
In-Reply-To: "Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Manager" <WALTHOWE@delphi.com>
"Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?" (Mar 23, 8:42)
To: "Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Manager" <WALTHOWE@delphi.com>,
rfolk@shell.portal.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Mar 23, 8:42, Walt Howe, DELPHI Internet SIG Manager wrote:
> Subject: Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
} What I find missing from the discussions of the attractiveness of Mosaic as an
} interface via dialups to shell accounts or SLIPs is the unattractiveness of
} 14.4K access. Once you get past the stage of marveling at the graphics, the
} 2 to 5 minute wait between graphic pages, gets old very fast. Mosaic will be
} nothing more than a curiosity to most people who are restricted to current
} dialup speeds. The bandwidth of the last leg to the home or office remains
} critical.
The Mosaic graphics are nice, but you don't need them to be functional and make
great use of the tool. There's a text mode that works fine. Also, I've been
told by my staff that the graphical mosaic can be configured not do load the
graphics.
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Cheers!
[ psr ]
