Mail clients in Linux

[Roger Lindmark]

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:38:23 -0800, Steve Scotten wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:53:52 -0500, Robert Novitskey wrote:
>
>>No.  I am one of several people who happens to think that Java at
>>this stage is a *bad* development platform.  You must curtail your
>>feature set to the speed constraints applied by the platform.  Right
>>now, the performance just isn't there.
>
>I dunno. That heinous Italian Java PMMail-ripoff ran OK on my 166 mHz machine.
>Cartainly *faster* than the PMMail I fell in love with on my 66 mHz 486 OS/2
>machine. If that level of performace was good enough four years ago, it should
>be now that 400 mHz Pentium IIs cost less than what 66 mHz 486s cost 4 years
>ago.
>

It is  not only the processors that gets faster, but also  Java itself.
I just installed Java 1.1.7 and noticed an increase in speed and
reliablity. The great obstacle in getting PMMail-Java might perhaps be
that BoB and Ike perhaps know this programming language?

Sincerely Yours

Roger
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