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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (15664)	12/29/1997 11:52:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

IE4 for UNIX is soooo sloooooow, but hey it has a ready excuse in that it's "beta". It will probably be the longest beta in history, IMHO. Hey, I got a theory for that, too. See, it was impossible to disentangle IE4 from Windows, since they'd coevolved into this roach motel California thing, so Microsoft had to write a bloated middleware OS to emulate Windows on Unix. But, to get extra mileage out of it they did the bloated middleware OS in Java so it could be portable and run on top of another bloated middleware OS. But it was all going to run on Microsoft's best-of-breed JVM/JIT, so it would all be fast as snot anyway. But the bootstrapping process ended up being so convoluted that nobody understood it anymore, and it takes forever, or at least it's undecidable how long it takes. Your IE just seems slow because it hasn't finished bootstrapping and JIT'ing yet. Once it's finished (ok, if it finishes), you'll be amazed. It's all part of this yin/yang, Jungian duality of man thing. I don't quite understand, but I'm working on it. Cheers, Dan