>On Jeopardy last night there was an answer: To access the internet you
>need 16Mb. The question [answer to unitiated]: What is RAM?
>
>I went to the Sony Jeopardy site [now on my list for slowest loading site
>Ive run across in ages 4:05 with 23 embedded object] to send some
>feedback and couldn't find an address to write to! Even the feedback to
>webmaster -- about javasnit and frames & no true "contact" possible --
>was impossible; I used the e-dress in the code that the cgi was supposed
>to send to, and that mail came back today as 'no such' ...
>
>l.d.
How much RAM is needed to access the Internet is not so rigidly fixed.
Net-Tamer advertises "the Internet in a thimble". DOS command-line email and
news programs are not very demanding, some could probably run in 640 KB.
Lynx386 and Arachne can run in much less than 16 MB RAM. One person managed to
run Arachne on a 486 notebook with 8 MB RAM and nonfunctional hard drive, using
1.44 MB diskettes and RAMDRIVE. But MSIE 5.5 is said to require 64 MB for
respectable performance.
First Web site I accessed with graphic browser was http://www.cookiecentral.com
with IBM Web Explorer for OS/2 Warp. Each page load took about 20 minutes. I
don't know whether that was due to the graphics on the Web site or due to
setting MRU = 496 as was recommended by Bluegrass Net, also Iglou. That was in
January 1998. It turned out that setting MRU = 496 caused problems that were
relieved by eliminating the MRU part from the settings. When I later ran
DOSPPPD and got PEERMRU = 1500, I figured 496 was ill-advised. I wasn't aware
in early 1998 how backward IBM Web Explorer was (Ultimail Lite too). As time
progresses, IBM Web Explorer seems to become gradually less functional. Last I
tried, IBM Web Explorer didn't start at all, crashing on takeoff.
I have had plenty of World Wide Waits with Arachne, and the vertical scrolling,
and horizontal where needed, tend to be clumsy.
By the way, I just came upon a long domain name, probably too long for Arachne?
http://www.herbal-viagra-for-impotence.8m.com
45 characters including protocol but without trailing slash.
