🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4dok0q$qlm@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com>,
Christopher C. Wood <christw@meaddata.com> wrote:
>In article <4dmovb$bk7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy) writes:
>
>|> Sigh...  Explain to me how your damn Mac is going to connect to the
>|> stinking URL when you are connected to the Internet via a terminal
>|> program running through a 2400 baud modem?  
>
>First of all, the Mac uses the 2400 baud modem and the built-in
>text-to-speach to call a mail-order house and order a 28.8 modem.

And if I don't give it my credit card number?  Will it steal one
for me?  I don't want to do anything illegal.

>Then it uses the built-in actualReality manipulator to sign for the

Oh, I guess the actualReality manipulator takes care of the credit
card number.

>package, and install the modem.  Then it uses the 28.8 modem to
>automatically download MacTCP (if you're running earlier than system
>7.5, and it's not installed), FreePPP, and Anarchie.  Then it sends a
>service request to your Internet provider telling it to convert your
>account to PPP. [Downloading TIA will be added in the next release.]

Nope.  My Internet provider is my school.  I'm not paying anything
for it other than my tuition so unless it can somehow block out
other people's access to these lines then it won't work.

>Then it downloads NewsWatcher and an evaluation copy of the latest
>Netscape Beta [we used to download Mosaic; this change is an upgrade].
>Then it opens up NewsWatcher, and command-clicks on the URL; Netscape
>is launched automatically, and the page at that URL is displayed.
>Simple, really.

Yes, simple indeed.

Ravi
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