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RE: Any small Linux browsers?

I believe a check for around $80 to a small company in Canada called Qnx...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	James R. Hall [SMTP:]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 03, 1999 12:23 PM
> To:	Robin Burgener (ExoVision); 'Wearables List'
> Subject:	Re: Any small Linux browsers?
> 
> 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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