[Welcome to the list, Marc. Great to have you here!] Marc Andreessen wrote
In article <9412111647.AA23311@tadpole.tadpole.com>, db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes) wrote:
I'll throw in that from the perspective of someone running a server, their approach of requesting all graphics simultaneously over different sockets in the name of client performance is disastrous. This causes most servers to fork N times more per page, where N is the avg. # of graphics.
That's just plain not true. Servers don't fork any more often with Netscape than they do with other clients -- EVER.
but some have speculated that this was done deliberately in order sabotage server software other than their own.
That's also just plain not true, and completely unsubstantiated.
Marc, have you ever been in an empty lab with an htpd server - late at night? You can HEAR it when Mozzilla hits the site. Two or three Mozzilla users at the same time will kill your server. Unless, I understand, it uses your server software for which you charge money. Can you be surprised that there are a significant number of people out there who are wondering if your "selfless" deed of giving away your client software for free was really all that selfless? -- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.