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In message <3537f9cf.15436247@news.demon.co.uk>
          paul@nospam.zero-g.demon.co.uk (Paul) wrote:

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

[ snip ]

> >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? ;-)
> 

AFAIK, Internet 4 and 5 are just Internet stacks, version 5 being newer. 4
may be a DCI2 stack, and 5 and DCI4 stack. Oh hell, more jargon ;-)

> >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?
> 

Yes.

> >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 :-)

POP is a program that will download mail-on-demand from your ISP, and indeed
anywhere else on the planet, so long as you have access. (Scrictly speaking,
POP is a protocol, but never mind). Newshound is something that fetches news.
Messenger is something that you read email and news on. Zap is a text editor,
far superior to Edit, StrongEd, etc >8->> that you use to write email and
news. Newsbase is the program that takes care of all the mail and news. It
stores it, gives it to messenger for display etc.

IMO, this is some of the most powerful news and mail software for any
computer. If it wasn't for Zap, Messenger and Newsbase, I would have foregon
my Acorn for internetting purposes. ATM, it swings the scales, plus Browse is
a little more "safe" for browsing, because if someone has a malicious web
page to kill a PC, you're OK, because you're not using a PC :-)

> 
> >ArcWeb fits into 2Mbytes, at least in early versions.
> 
> I guess thats a browser ;-)

Yep.

> 
> >As for other stuff, I suggest you try it and see.
> 
> I will. This is gonna be fun :-)
> 

Peter

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