L.A.Crawshaw@herts.ac.UK wrote:
However my main concern is that it is a Windows 95 version. We do not have Windows 95 yet, nor are likely to in the near future - we are more likely to move toward Windows NT. So even if I add it to stock, there is no machine here which can make use of it!!
Am I correct in reading that this disc is "Win95 only"? If so (the issue hasn't surfaced here yet), I can think of very few computers and scientists here able to make much use of it. Should I presume that this is a "trial balloon" and that the disc will be made cross-platform in the future? I feel bad speaking ill of something that I haven't yet seen and whose concept I support wholeheartedly, but frankly the tools are available to make hybrid discs and the target audience certainly has a large amount of MacOS users. A related tangent: there seems to be significant momentum for Java being a "write it only once" cross-platform solution. Are there electronic publishing systems written in Java in development (or existing)? Like many people, I have been underwhelmed by Java's performance over the web (largely due to the bandwidth problem), but I'm interested in how well it works on a local computer or intranet level.... Hoping I can browse ECHET96 in the future (and certainly ECTOC97!), john nash -==-John R. Nash-==-nash@chem.wisc.edu-==-UW-Madison Chem. Dept-==- --- "When in doubt, roll!" --- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)