On 30 July 1999, "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Friday, July 30, 1999, 1:10:44 PM, Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
>te:
>
>> At 12:47 PM 7/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Friday, July 30, 1999, 12:37:33 PM, Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Look at http://www.activeworlds.com
>>>
>>>> No matter what you write or find, you won't find
>>>> anything more suited to what you want than this.
>>>
>>>Activeworlds is quite nice, however it has draw backs.
>>>It is quite CPU intensive, it is not multiplatform, requires
>>>registration for the best experience (which is a cost of $20/user I
>>>believe, it's been a while) and then you are depending on a server
>>>that another company is running.
>
>> It doesn't run well in under 32M. Apart from that, it works fine.
>
>> There are emulators on the mac and unix that can run it on other
>> platforms.
>
>I've used wine under linux, and graphic intense apps don't run very
>well at all. Even simple graphic viewers in email clients have a hard
>time. Its far from ready for primetime.
It's also quite possible that people stuck with various unices (Linux,
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.) don't have the option, as a user, to install
anything like this. IRC, however, actually stands a chance of already
being installed.
And if it's not, telnet is. And you can set up the IRC server to
automatically connect a telnet to it to the appropriate client and
channel.
If the user's stuck on unix, can't install anything, doesn't have
IRC, and can't telnet out, then chances are nothing that would be
proposed would work. Of course, someone could volunteer to call
them and read the conversation to them.
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