on 5/14/01 3:12 PM, Matt Halter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Your real slowdown on the web with this machine (IMHO) is lack of video
> processing power/video ram.  The web is very image oriented today.  Your
> processor will be overwhelmed with data well before the serial port will
> slow you down.  Text oriented things like e-mail should be fine.

Images AND Java/Javascript stuff!  That's why you run your browser in as
much RAM as possible, along with having the cache routed to RAM disk.  But,
yes, there's no way around the fact that accessing the web from these older
machines is sometimes painful.

- Eric.




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