On 18-Jun-98 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Spirilis wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> In half a year, we're going to be the _only_ OS that's
>> running MS Internet Exploder at a decent speed...
>> Will that mean that MS can't do without _us_ and that
>> some of the internetting population will switch to
>> us :-)
>
> Nope, they will just fill the innerloops with busycode.. And
> make IE Linux
> slower then all the rest, and it will slow the whole system
> down while
> it's running.
In the ol' mainframe days people were not patching sources
but the running binaries. I bet that someone could take up those
skills again.........then again: why bother? lynx rulez :-)
- --thomas
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