On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:25:46, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> I am writing to the list with a 80286 (made by Harris) and only 1 Mby. > and a yellow hercules monitor. > I really like to use minumun equipment when posible. > With the 80286 I have Pegasus Mail, Minuet, POPMail, FTP, Bobcat, UseNet and > Telnet to a shell account with Conex where I run Lynx, at a speed more than > three times faster than IE in a 800Mhz Celeron. Sorry for the wisecrack about 286's only being good for boat anchors. Yes, they can do lots of interesting and useful things as you point out. And I can see the satisfaction in that. I know from experience that Lynx and Pine from a shell account are faster than blazes. I really miss my shell account. Maybe I'll hunt up a new one and go back to using Telix to get online. 286's and even XT's (which I used to use) are perfectly adeqaute text mode terminals. But they are not much good for running Arachne. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
