🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:57:27 +0100, Kira L. Brown, or someone
pretending to be Kira L. Brown wrote these words:

[deletia]

>You *can* run news and mail on 1 Mbyte and no hard disc.  I've done
>it.  IRC too.  But you won't enjoy it at all.  On 2 Mbytes and, in
>my case, a Zip drive (with the Alsystems drivers, if you don't like
>pain) it's a bit easier, and you can *almost* run a web browser.

"almost" ?!? :-)

>I don't *think* you can run Internet 4 on an ARM250.  I've run
>Internet 5, and while it's a bit of a fiddle (boot off a floppy
>load new !Boot, etc, etc, strip down to get rid of memory-eating
>modules etc.), it *does* work.

I've sorry to admit, I've no idea what Internet 4 and Internet 5 are.
I'll go browse for them now. (I wonder how many sites AltaVista will
come up with when I do a search? ;-)

>I'd recommend ArmTCP as your dialler, it works well and doesn't
>use much memory.

Sounds good to me. Will that be *instead* of the Acornet dialler?

>As apps, you can just about manage Newsbase in 2 Mbytes, and I
>wouldn't be without Zap 1.35 (it is so much smaller than the latest 
>versions!) when dealing with the A3010.
>
>IRC is easy in 2 Mbytes.  POP and NewsHound run fine, as does 
>Messenger.

Again, forgive my ignorance of all things Acorn, but apart from IRC, I
haven't a clue what any of those apps are, or what they do. I can
guess from the names; Newsbase and Newshound sound like Usenet
clients, POP and Messenger sound like mail clients, and Zap, I haven't
a clue :-)

>ArcWeb fits into 2Mbytes, at least in early versions.

I guess thats a browser ;-)

>As for other stuff, I suggest you try it and see.

I will. This is gonna be fun :-)

>kira.

Thanks for the info. Nice name, btw.

Cheers

Paul

"The geek shall inherit the earth." - Frank Zappa