[9738] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Sizing the Internet market
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert G. Moskowitz)
Tue Jan 18 23:57:47 1994
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 19:15 EST
From: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>
To: com priv <com-priv@psi.com>
Lloyd Brodsky asked:
>3. To what extent is the legendarily difficult character-based
> VT100 Internet interface you get with almost all dial-up accounts
> a genuine bar to access? Put another way if, say, a Mosaic-style
> GUI interface were operable over an ordinary dial-up account how
> many more people would sign up that would not otherwise? I might
> also ask, since a SLIP connection would permit the use of Mosaic,
> if it would make a big difference why don't providers hand out
> SLIP-preconfigured copies now?
Why SLIP and not PPP. Many of the brocures I have received list PPP as a
connection alternative. And there are beginning to be PPP under Windows
viable configurations. So Mosaic and WAIS are the way to go. Plus Eudora
for your POP3 mail.
Now as you indicated, if the cost of these services would come down...
Bob
