But Web Browsers Give me a Skinny Client!

Is a Web browser still a skinny client? Let's see:

E:\netscape\navigator                      24 File(s)        430,785 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program              21 File(s)      2,785,767 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program\java          4 File(s)              0 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program\java\bin      6 File(s)        612,864 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program\java\classes  4 File(s)      1,441,351 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program\plugins       4 File(s)         47,104 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\Program\Navigator     4 File(s)            816 bytes
E:\netscape\navigator\System                3 File(s)         20,992 bytes
                                                           ---------------
                                                           5,339,679 bytes

Performance monitor of available memory when running Netscape shows Netscape consuming > 5M of memory on Windows NT.
As browsers add more features, and Java adds more classes, expect disk and memory usage to grow.

Patrick J. Mueller (pmuellr@raleigh.ibm.com)
For the 1996 Smalltalk Solutions Panel on Smalltalk and the Web