(from Alejandro Lieber):
>Upgrading from the 286 to the 386, didn't change the speed of
>downloading mail in Pegasus Mail, news with TcpPort, reading news
>offline with yarn.
>Only rendering html pages made a big diffence.
>
>My son, studing engeeniering, tells me that he downloads HTML pages
>quiecker in this 40Mhz with Lynx than with IE 5.5 in a 500Hz Celeron
>with a winmodem
Considering that reading and writing 3.5" or 5.25" diskettes is much faster than
56 Kbps, a 56 K modem should not be a bottleneck with a 286. I don't know if a
286 could keep up with a DSL or cable modem, though this would be a strange
combination.
If I had to rely on graphic browsers, I wouldn't see very much of the WWW
because of time constraints.
There ought to be a law against advertising a winmodem as a modem without
specifying winmodem (deceptive advertising). This is comparable to advertising
boneless skinless chicken breasts when it's really an imitation made from
textured vegetable protein.
