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Technical Considerations: X and Unix Platforms

You can view this exhibit with the latest versons of any of the commonly available browsers. We suggest you use NCSA Mosaic 2.6, Netscape 1.12, Spyglass Mosaic 2.0 or later versions of browsers. Older versions will NOT display ALL the information presented inside this exhibit. Another point to note is many of the pages are Netscape optimized, so that they may appear slightly different from how they were intended with other browsers. If you are currently using an older version of one of the browsers mentioned above, use the links below to download the the most current version:

• NCSA Mosaic
• Netscape
• Spyglass Mosaic (*note* - Spyglass Mosaic is a commercial product)

Movies:

MPEG Play - for viewing MPEG movies
XAnim - cross-platform Quicktime viewer. Give it a try.

Sounds:

X Play Gizmo - will also provide controls for movies

Graphics/Other:

X-view - for viewing external GIF and JPEG images

Estimated Download Times:

• To The Edge with Einstein
  • Quicktime (11.0 MB) - Ethernet: 2:01 mins
  • MPEG (4.7 MB) - Ethernet: 0:16 mins
  • AIFF Sound (5.2 MB) - Ethernet: 0:33 mins
• High Amplitude Disturbance
  • Quicktime (2.3 MB) - Ethernet: 0:21 mins
  • MPEG (436K) - Ethernet: 0:02 mins
  • AIFF Sound (1.3 MB) - Ethernet: 0:11 mins
• Ed Seidel, on camera
  • Quicktime (783K) - Ethernet: 0:04 mins
  • AIFF Sound (515K) - Ethernet: 0:03 mins
• Estimated download times are also available in this table

Click here if you need help unzipping (.Z) and untarring (.tar) the Unix files you download.

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