- 1. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: jkearman@juno.com (James E Kearman)
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:16:50 -0500
- It takes about as long to boot my 133 MHz Pentium and start Word 97 as it did to book my 386 SX-16 and start Wordstar 7. After using Word 97 I'm not ready to return to Wordstar7! I like the simplicit
- /html/mgs/1998-02/msg00005.html (7,284 bytes)
- 2. Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:21:02 +0000
- All this talk about ADSL, xDSL, and cable modems has gotten me thinking, which has gotten me depressed. I just realized today that the Internet is never going to seem any faster than it does right no
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02280.html (8,746 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:22:57 -0500
- The content always rides the limit of tolerance. I think for most people if it takes more than 10 seconds to load a page at least enough to navigate, they will lose interest. The 10 seconds (or whate
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02284.html (9,009 bytes)
- 4. RE: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:01:20 +0000
- I just read an comment from one of the designers from Xerox PARC (If you don't know, that's who Apple stole the idea for a windowing GUI from before Microsoft stole it from Apple :) ). He was talkin
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02302.html (8,739 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:01:21 +0000
- ed I think this has already happened. See Trevor's excellent post about waiting time being essentially constant as bandwidth increases. ually g via True, I should have said "performance" seems to be
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02303.html (12,993 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:01:20 +0000
- I actually had the dual floppies for several years before we got the 10MB Sider external hard drive. At the time, 10MB was enough for me to load *four* different operating systems on the Apple, and
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02304.html (9,942 bytes)
- 7. RE: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "doug russell" <dr-doug@classic.msn.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 98 16:02:35 UT
- I think George Carlin has a great routine on a related topic. The bigger the house, the more junk we collect. When we run out of room for our junk, we just go out and get a bigger house and fill that
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02307.html (9,556 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:50:22 -0500
- This is what Moore's Law is all about. Cheers, Kai Radicke -- kmr@pil.net -- 1966 MGB @ http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg Sonix.Networks -- "Building the Internet, byte by byte..." IRC: irc.mcs.net, #inet
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02314.html (8,089 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:41:12 +0000
- Kai, Actually, Moore's law says nothing about what users will DO with increased power or bandwidth. All he said was that the amount of electronics that can be placed on a given size chip will double
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02318.html (8,411 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:41:12 +0000
- twork, ed has No improvement, since Wolfenstein didn't ask for anything that a 486DX-33 couldn't deliver. cing for a pgrade al Sure, you COULD use it for years, but it would depend on your applicati
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02319.html (13,165 bytes)
- 11. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:49:00 -0500
- Cheers, Kai Radicke -- kmr@pil.net -- 1966 MGB @ http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg Sonix.Networks -- "Building the Internet, byte by byte..." IRC: irc.mcs.net, #inet-access (my nick: ActiveX or KMR)
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02321.html (8,411 bytes)
- 12. Re: Sinking feeling about Internet (No LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: BobMGT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:20:02 EST
- I noticed a lot of Packard Bell bashing in this thread. I recently bought an M400 model and I'm very happy with it. I added a second hard drive (salvaged from my old computer done in by lighting) and
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02343.html (7,897 bytes)
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