On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:15:30PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> > While I can't totally empathize since I've never had high Internet bills, >> > until recently I was on US dialup (that's 53Kb down at best). >> >> I've been around since it was 2400 bps ;-) - believe me; that is slow. > >Since we're reminiscing, I remember when a friend got a 300 baud modem and >thought it was so cool. I held out until a local mall store had a Hayes 1200 >on sale (4 times faster! Who could believe it!) and then logged on to local >BBSes and played Trade Wars and Land of Devastation until... actually, I guess >until the Internet came to my area. I don't really remember stopping.
I remember the upgrade to 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 19200 BAUD. Each speed improvement was more amazing than the next (I got ISDN sometime after 19200 and never looked back). I also remember that when I wanted to download something big, I would just start the download going and wander away from the computer to do something else. So, I don't really understand the complaints about cygwin being hard to install over a slow link. >>Time seems to always be a culprit... But my experience is coincident >>wih yours; discussions brings things forth, might it be slow and time >>consuming. > >"But, as I have observed that Time confuses facts occasionally, I >hardly know what weight to give to his authority." -- Charles Dickens, >"The Battle of Life" > >We can hope, anyway. :) And of course they're always this: "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Dan Quayle cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/