You don't need Win'95 for Miail on the Internet,  I used to access my
mail through Terminal  on the PC and PINE on the ISP.  Not very
elegant, but it worked.  Of course, if you want to take it back to
the days of Arpanet, you could get on before here was a PC as we know it.
Nick D.

> From: Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Denys writes:
> ...
> > - I think a good answer from Bill Gates would have been, "How many
people
> > in this room have started using the Internet when they got Windows 95?"
> ...
>
> And I'd say: We started when we got a Unix machine.
>
> I suspect that a significantly larger percentage of Unix machines are on
> the net than Win95 machines.
>
> (No, I'm not saying there are more Unix machines on the net than Win95
machines)
>
> > - On April 1, 2 days ago, your shiny new Pentium MMX laptop was
rendered
> > obsolete.  The Mobile Pentium II (Deschutes class) was released.  How
fi
> > tting that an entire class of expensive laptops be made obsolete on
April
> > Fool's day.
>
> Denys....you should know by now...if you *have* a computer, it's obsolete
:)
>
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