Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:09:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To:	MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: What good is GEM?
In-Reply-To:	<199703201348.NAA22447@milly>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.95.970321000310.16555Y-100000@capslock.com>
Organization:	Total disorganization.
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, MORRIS JP wrote:

> > I've never seen GEM so I'm highly curious as to wether or not I'd
> > even benefit with it.  I'm running Linux with X, and just
> > reinstalled WFW 3.11 again to use WP 6.1.  Right now this setup
> > works pretty good (except the WFW part).  What benefit would I
> > have of using GEM?  I suspect that I probably wouldn't use it,
> 
> None as yet, although its is suspected Caldera may use it as the basis of some
> GUI os or shell.

It will be interesting to see what it becomes.  I know a lot of
people who would like to get on the internet, but that can't
afford a $12000 computer.  Win95 is NOT necessary for
Internetting, Win 3.1 internetting SUCKS BIG.  Therefore, if
Caldera's GUI is successful, I'll be able to help a lot of people
get on the net for under $1000 and have a good system to boot.

> > and that it would be aimed at people with much lower needs.  Is
> > this assumption correct?
> 
> Yes.  Although some people I know would be happy to see Gem again.

Well, I've never seen it, but if it works good and does the job,
I'm sure that many people will benefit as described above.

> >   Visit my homepage if you want your Dynamic IP address on your webpage.
> 
> ??? 

I've written a program that allows you to "publish" your
dynamically assigned IP address to your webpage each time you
connect to the internet.  That way other people can easily
connect to your machine.  This is only useful if you WANT people
to be able to contact you or connect to you machine easily.  I'm
also writing a cool server program right now that will solve the
dynamic address problem in a much better way. If you're
interested, email me directly and I'll add you to the list of
people to notify when it is up and running.  The first client
will be for Linux.  An OpenDOS port will follow shortly after,
and then Winxx versions when I find someone to port it.


Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant   |                  Coming soon: dynamic-IP-freedom...
My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca

LINUX: What changed from 2.0.27 to 2.0.28?  I don't notice anything.

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