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To: Dirk Dawson who wrote (8821)	2/26/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213173

Linda, when I was inquiring about level 2 quotes, etc. last summer, I got this from InterQuote: You can telnet to us. Please go to: www.shareware.com for free telnet software for Mac, the telnet to iq.interquote.com. This will look like the Unix interface and is not graphical. > Hello, > > So do I have this right, that you offer no Macintosh software? Yet you > offer a UNIX version? > > Since I have no plans to leave the Mac platform is my only option to use > VirtualPC to emulate Windows 95? What about when Rhapsody is available > in spring, '98 for the Mac, since it is really just a GUI over UNIX? > > Best, > Marc Newman --------------- Would that work? Will you let us know how it works out for you? Btw, I'm depressed now that I know the shorts have covered 1/3 of their shares. Marc

To: Dirk Dawson who wrote (8821)	2/26/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Connection speed, in fact, is not everything, even surfing the Web. My wife is a professional journalist covering the Web, so she is surfing constantly. We have ISDN 2-B-channel. In regular usage, with a 601-based Mac, we never brought up the second B-channel. In fact, the limiting throughput was the rendering on the browser, even with RAM disk for caching. We recently upgraded her machine to a G3. Now the second B-channel gets pulled up much of the time, and qualitatively, we feel that at this level for Web browsing, the ISDN and Macintosh are pretty well matched. What this shows is that if streaming content becomes a reality, people will need to upgrade not only the connections to something faster than ISDN, but also the machines, either with faster processors or specialized accelerators. It also shows that for things like Web browsing, the current top level machines and connections (G3 and ISDN) are well matched.