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Re: Any small Linux browsers?

From: "James R. Hall" <>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:22:37 -0500

er, but how do you get the 'full' version of QNX?
(when I tried the demo a few months ago it rocked!)

     -James, N9XLC
     -
     -certified NERD
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Burgener (ExoVision) <>
To: 'Wearables List' <>
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: FW: Any small Linux browsers?

>I hate to bring this up again, however, QNX with a full Photon GUI and
>running the web browser Voyager will run in less then 16M.  This can be
>trimmed-back to all fit within 4M.  If you go to the QNX site
>(http://www.qnx.com), you can download the QNX/Photon/Web-browser single
>floppy disk demo; this might be a good place to start.
>
>My old web server was a 33MHz 486 with 8M, running QNX and Apache.  It
>could easily handle upto 60 hits per minute.  The server is now a 200Mhz
>AMD-K6 with 64M; it has hit 193HPM.  It might be able to handle more but
>my link seems to be limited to 500Kb/s, it is suppose to be 1.1Mb/s.
>
>Robin Burgener - http://207.236.3.210
>ExoVision Technologies Inc. - http://www.exovision.com
>Keeper of Twenty Questions - http://come.to/20q
>
>
>>----------
>>From: Vaughan Pratt[SMTP:]
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 3:16 AM
>>To: 
>>Subject: Any small Linux browsers?
>>
>>Although we tend to think of web servers as massive engines serving
>>zillions of little clients out there, this is more true of the hardware
>>than of the software, where things are the other way round.  The http
>>daemon running on
>>
>> http://wearables.stanford.edu
>>
>>was Apache and was pretty small even then, but is now Boa and is even
>>smaller, and has the advantage of not forking a process for every client
>>and can thus in principle support a much higher load, important for a
>>one-cubic-inch web server.  Here's the line from 'top' right now while my
>>matchbox server, http://wearables.stanford.edu, is serving 4 hits/minute
>>(no load at all as far as %CPU is concerned, but note the size of 828 KB,
>>which easily fits.)
>>
>>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>>  196 nobody     8   0   828  828   472 S       0  3.4  5.6 198:40 boa
>>
>>Clients are another thing altogether.  Netscape is huge.  Are there any
>>smaller X11 or libsvga browsers for Linux?
>>
>>Vaughan
>>
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