Re: WWW on the C64? too slow?
                                       
   From: Cameron Kaiser <cdkaiser@delete.these.four.words.concentric.net>
   Reply to: Cameron Kaiser
   Date: 31 Oct 1998 22:59:19 PST
   Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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ddmw@hunterlink.net.au (Marc Walters) writes:

>Nobody in this WWW thread seems to have wondered how a 64Kb machine can
>sort out all those data packets as they arrive. There'll be lots of disk
>to RAM swapping, and what happens if more than 144 packets arrive?
>The 1541 has a 144 file limit.

So use direct access. U1 and U2 are your friends.

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