In 1995-1996, remember I had an i386 PC running Linux right next to a DEC Alpha also running Linux, with thin-net ethernet between them. For many things, the A

In 1995-1996, remember I had an i386 PC running Linux right next to a DEC Alpha also running Linux, with thin-net ethernet between them. For many things, the Alpha was much faster. But for browsing, I ran Mosaic on the PC and remote displayed it on the Alpha which actually had a monitor attached. Prior to that, I tried running Grail, a browser written in Python, directly on the Alpha. It was so slow it was basically unusable, i.e. slower than the web loading over data over SLIP a 14.4 modem. Running the x86 Mosaic binary in emulation on the Alpha via FX!32 was actually faster, but still too slow to use daily.