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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:14:15 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- john enger (enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- : I agree, a vanilla 1200 *is* a lousy machine for web-surfing...
- : A plain 14Mhz '020 1200 is just going to be too slow for web browsing - and
- : its the web that sells the internet. Newsgroups, ftp and irc come later.
-
- : But, the 1200+ with its rumoured 40Mhz '030 and 4Mb of RAM would be pretty
- : damn good... lets hope they do a 1200+ surfer pack. Now *that* would sell
- : a bundle! (no pun intended!)
-
- It would sell better agreed, depends on the price. :)
-
- Actually, I was using an a1200 with a 50Mhz '030 and 4 MB of fast ram the other
- day, ran out of memory running just AMosaic and AmiTCP. :) Still mighty slow
- too, though you need more than a 14.4 modem to get anywhere with the web.
-
- What people will do with a vanilla 1200 is beyond me, AT distributers should
- expect a lot of returns.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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