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1994 download speeds simulated nicely ;-)

1994 download speeds simulated nicely ;-)

Posted Apr 1, 2008 8:04 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: 1994 download speeds simulated nicely ;-) by pr1268
Parent article: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!

... brings back memories of thinking how *fast* it was after waiting half 
an hour or more for one of the ancient battered 486s in the Brunel 
University CS department to finish logging on. (This wasn't because the 
machines were slow, although they were: it was the network. If a network 
could melt from collisions, that one would have.)


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1994 download speeds simulated nicely ;-)

Posted Apr 1, 2008 22:27 UTC (Tue) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link]

That reminds me of Aberdeen's idea of running an entire lab of about 40 machines on a single
segment of 10Base2 (thinnet), and having the machines run their Windows 3.1 swapfiles on a
single SPARCstation machine.

1994 download speeds simulated nicely ;-)

Posted Apr 2, 2008 0:01 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think we had sixty or seventy on a single segment of 10base2, but I'm 
fairly sure we weren't swapping over the network. (We just did everything 
*else* over the network...)

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