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Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sat Mar 26 15:40:33 1994

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:10:41 -0800
To: kwe@cerf.net (Kent W. England), com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)

At  9:39 AM 3/25/94 -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
>But Mosaic is a critical successful experiment that will possibly lead to
>those improved protocols and software.  Many are calling Mosaic the
>long-awaited Internet killer app.  It just might be the first (second after
>email).

Yes to all of the above -- however, it doesn't mean that it's either well
written or well designed, nor that its protocol is well designed for other
than Ethernet speeds.  It may be... but it does not give the appearance of
being so.

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Glenn Tenney
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