Or even my 386 with 8 meg of RAM runs just great with cable and dsl.
Carl
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:52:18 -0400
> From: "Chris Fite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
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> Even with Cable, a 486 is plenty fast. The 10 Mbit card is still
> faster than anything that comes down the cable.
>
> Chris
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> From: "Craig Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] 486 won't start STN
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> > With a lot of blood sweat and tears, it could be done. I would say
> > wander down to the local flea market and see what you can find.
> > Heck, most of the local companies are not holding onto anything
> > slower than 200Mhz where I live anymore, which means people such as
> > myself get ahold of them and then will toss their old 486's. (If
> > you wanted to pay shipping, I'll send you one) If your running a
> > 56K modem, even the lowest 386sx16 will run STN with full speed.
> > Only if you are using DSL or Cable or such things would you need a
> > faster machine. And certainly a K6 is overkill. :-)
> >
> > Craig
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