Java in libraries and homes with light bulbs!

[Hillary Handwerger]

Since my major emphasis is on providing business and manufactuirng access 
to the Internet for their needs, I am focusing on the outside user.  I am 
a "pusher" of Internet and business sources.

So are you saying that the Win 32 addon will work outside of a networked 
setting?  With PPP ?



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Hillary Handwerger
hillaryh at sme.org
Society of Manufacturing Engineers-- CoNDUIT Project
313 271-1500 ext 597 
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, The Big Glee Bopper wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Stan Kasper wrote:
> 
> > The 32-bit version of Netscape will not work with Windows 3.x even
> > when using the WIN32S addon.  
> 
> A slight digression. You folks do realize that there is an inside/outside 
> dichotomy you are dealing with? You have an inside limitation because you 
> are running win 3.1, but _many_ of your users are actually _outside_ your 
> library and can run Netscape 2.whatever which deals with Java. Many of 
> these _outside_ users aren't actually interested in coming _inside_ the 
> library but are interested in getting/using information from the library.
> 
> Why not have an aspect of your service devoted to outside users and
> include java apps for them who can view them. You could develop them on a
> stand alone machine in the library either win95 or linux, and include them
> in apps for the outside users. This gives you a chance to play and keep up
> with these _slight_ changes. Eventually things get fixed, machines get
> more powerful, whatever, and you are ready. It isn't perfect but not much
> is. 
> 
> I think the estimate at the moment is that there are 10 million folks
> online in the US out of a population of 265 million folks. 10/265, or .04
> of the american population. Sounds pretty small but at one point in time
> that number could be coming from homes with glass windows, light bulbs,
> phones, radios, TVs, and computers ... the only thing certain is change.
> So get ready for it in whatever way possible. 
> 
> --Thom
>