I enjoyed Jon Udell's article on establishing a World Wide Web site ("Hello, World," July), especially the sidebar titled "Don't Dis the Host." I, too, use and prefer text-based Internet access. Udell called himself a "knuckle-scraping Neanderthal" for preferring text browsers. Thanks for affirming that there are still some fellow Paleolithic types out on the Internet.
Erik Farquhar
farquhar@acsu.buffalo.edu
Nice to see you guys on the Web. I noticed at the end of your "Hello, World" piece that you mentioned eventually trying out OS/2 and Unix servers. I would find a comparison of Mac vs. other operating systems useful. The freeware MacHTTPd and its commercial incarnation, WebStar from StarNine, are the obvious choices, and Apple offers bundles with all the necessary Internet server software. If
you are going to give the other platforms a shot, don't pass over the Mac.
Mark Eaton
marke@nwlink.com
Point taken. I tend not to think of the Mac as a heavy-duty server platform since the OS still lacks robust memory protection and preemptive multitasking. But serving up HTML documents, at least on a modestly trafficed Web site, need not be a particularly demanding server application. Thanks for the reminder.--Jon Udell
I was told that the BYTE Web site would be operational within a couple weeks. Is it ready yet?
Gene Belanger
Houston, TX
Yes, our Web site is up and running, and it provides a link to our FTP server from which you may download BYTE's benchmark source code and executables. Our URL is
http://www.byte.com/
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The BYTE Network Project
