m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote, On 10/27/2009 12:31 PM: >> John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM: >>> GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this >>> remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm >>> talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec serial speeds (a >>> 1280x1024 24bit desktop is 3.6 million bytes). use a really simple >>> theme on the desktop with no shaded borders, no backgroun graphics >>> ('wallpaper'), etc. Sending a single full screen 1280x1024 >>> photographic image could take a half hour or more. >>> >> You Kids and your full desktop hosted back... >> back in the day I worked with individual applications across a 9.6kbps >> connection, and yes it was >> slow and had a bit of lag, but it worked well enough to use xemacs and >> mozilla across. Also when > <snip> > Man, talk about a time traveller! How'd you get a copy of firefox back to > when we only had Netscape? Your right, I started with Mosaic & an "andrew" mail/message program, and moved to Netscape. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter