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Having got Oasis 2 up and running, I was quite surprised how slow it
takes for it to download news - a mere 300-600cps compared to my NOS
set-up achieving 2100-2400cps.

(Both _are_ running at 14.4 with a connect of 57.6)

It seems that Oasis 2 files every news item as it goes along - such
that the disk accesses slow everything right down. Surely to
minimise time on line, all the sorting and filing should be done
after disconnecting ?

If there is a way of downloading faster (and I don't mean getting
just the headers, choosing which items, and then downloading - i.e.
two phone calls) in any way, I would be interested to hear about it.

Consequently (and, I'm afraid, as I thought I would), I have gone
back to using AtariNOS. It may not be elegant with its simple TOS
interface - but it's faster. And I get FTP and Telnet that work
fully and properly, as well as Gopher and WWW and on-line mail
writing and sending (albeit courtesy of a quick telnet session to
Birmingham University!)

Regards,
 Andrew

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