George Vieira wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that Linux will work as a friend of mine has it for his Win95
> machine and you MUST apply a machine name to your PC.. eg.. OP012884L and
> that's your machine name.. anything else it won't work..
> Silly I think...
That's because optus use dhcp and not that silly bpalogon thing. All you
need is a OS that has a dhcp client and your set. That makes their
service O/S independant - technically the client can run anything they
want, unlike with big swamp where if bpalogin isn't ported then bad luck
*8-/
> Optus cable is apparently real damn quick too.. I've seen soemthing like 10
> downloads at 12-20KB/s and quaking at the same time....
I get regular speeds of 600K/s. Of course YMMV *8-)
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Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating
system originally coded for a 4 bit
microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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