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From Bubba to Warsong on 11:28 am Sun Nov 19, 1995
B> I'm running Win 3.1 wiht Softram...Like I said, It gets the job done, just
B> real slowly :).....Win95 and 8 megs? you should be fine, just make sure you
B> get the latest version of Netscape, 2.0b wor Win95 ONLY...(There's also a 2.
B> for win 3.x)
W>
W> Cool...thank a lot.
W
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From Phillyfan to Radman on 3:36 am Mon Nov 20, 1995
R> Too bad you don't go to Wilfrid Laurier! I get free access and unlimited
R> time! Woo-hoo! Now that's a deal!
Ohh, I'm jealous. You also get no grphx I_Net from home, and
a highschool education to boot. <Wohooo>
Phillyfan
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From Leprechaun to Servility on 5:05 am Mon Nov 20, 1995
L> Which is it? Uranus or Warsong? ;)
S>
S> I'll let one of them explain it :) It'll make a lot less sense that way
Yep, the real Warsong told me all about it in email. :)
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From Warsong to Nevada on 1:50 pm Mon Nov 20, 1995
N> They sure as heck are...they're putting $$$ into the company's pocke
N> who make these phony swap file programs. I have these things too, and took
N> them off the system, just too much conflict, slowdowns, etc....
You too, huh? Yeah, those things just seem like a big scam to
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From Servility to Warsong on 4:12 pm Mon Nov 20, 1995
W> You too, huh? Yeah, those things just seem like a big scam to me. I wonder
W> when (if) a real ram doubler for Win 95 will ever come out. Is a program
W> like that possible?
Well sure.. there is a great RAM doubler.. you ahve what 8 megs of RAM?...
I think for that they cost
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From Radman to Graz'Zt on 7:43 pm Mon Nov 20, 1995
G> yeah but mach1 is fucking slow as hell right? and how many phone lines does
G> WLU have? its nothing compared to UW.
Yeah...it can be slow sometimes. But usually I don't have many problems. I
mainly find it slow when I try to download something from my mach1 account to
my PC.
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From Jays Fan to Bubba on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
B> Actually, Netscape saves EVERYTING you DL from the Net (And I do mean EVERY
B> picture you downlaod off the web :)....It stores them all in the /cache sub
B> directerory....hehe, like 500+ files...:)
Yeah.. i've been noticing that.. but, not really a temporary save though..:)
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From Jays Fan to Warsong on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
W> So you have to wait to sort of dl them, but you're not really recieving any
W> files? Wouldn't it be better to just dl them in the first place and view the
W> later?
Well.. I dunno, I beleive you can still sort of save them on your drive
after you view them..
Jays Fan
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From Jays Fan to Warsong on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
JF> Just use QEMM 8.0 if ya got win95, (works with just dos too), and it'll giv
JF> you the option of putting in magnaram, which is a ram doubler..
W>
W> Does the doubler really work? I've tried Softram 95, and all it seemed to do
W> was slow down my machine, and cause a few prob
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From Bubba to Jays Fan on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
JF>
B> Actually, Netscape saves EVERYTING you DL from the Net (And I do mean EVERY
B> picture you downlaod off the web :)....It stores them all in the /cache sub
B> directerory....hehe, like 500+ files...:)
JF>
JF> Yeah.. i've been noticing that.. but, not really a temporary save
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From Phylon to Stranger on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
S> I asume your talking about the mIRC 3.72 I got from one of the mIRC mirrior
S> sites or something... I did a key word search in opentext and went from ther
S> and made it to the origional site... something like that... :)
yeah I have 3.72.. but I haven't noticed ANY differenc
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From Jays Fan to Bubba on 9:59 am Tue Nov 21, 1995
JF> Yeah.. i've been noticing that.. but, not really a temporary save though..:
JF>
B>
B> Well, it keeps the totall number of megs it saves to like 5 (you can configu
B> this though) :)
Hmmm, I gotta play around with this more.. I'm just starting to configure my
viewers and audi
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From Warsong to Servility on 10:39 pm Tue Nov 21, 1995
S> Well sure.. there is a great RAM doubler.. you ahve what 8 megs of RAM?.
S> I think for that they cost about $400 :)
Don't you know of anything cheaper? (like maybe free? :)
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From Radman to Spiderman on 11:11 pm Tue Nov 21, 1995
R> Too bad you don't go to Wilfrid Laurier! I get free access and unlimited
R> time! Woo-hoo! Now that's a deal!
S>
S> BTW: Is there modem pool # busy alot??
Yeah...it is busy a lot. But it isn't too bad. I just get auto redial
fired up and do something else as I wait, so it doe
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From Radman to Spiderman on 11:14 pm Tue Nov 21, 1995
S> to radman: Did'nt WLU just got NETSCAPE?? they were using KERMIT or
S> something prg..
Yes, some computers have Netscape on them, but that isn't the mach1 network.
I know that some of the PRISM computers (the Businesss and Economics network)
have Netscape, and they are expand
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From Radman to Phillyfan on 11:18 pm Tue Nov 21, 1995
R> Too bad you don't go to Wilfrid Laurier! I get free access and unlimited
R> time! Woo-hoo! Now that's a deal!
P>
P> Ohh, I'm jealous. You also get no grphx I_Net from home, and
P> a highschool education to boot. <Wohooo>
What are you talking about?
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From Servility to Warsong on 12:49 am Wed Nov 22, 1995
W> Don't you know of anything cheaper? (like maybe free? :)
Sure... I have an unlimited supply of free RAM would you like some? Will
32 megs hold you over? :)... No I don't know where to get RAM free... well
Conestoga College... But that conciense of yours... :)
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Ser
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From Warsong to Servility on 7:08 am Wed Nov 22, 1995
S> Sure... I have an unlimited supply of free RAM would you like some? Will
S> 32 megs hold you over? :)... No I don't know where to get RAM free... well
When I said free, I meant an elite copy of ram-doubling software, not the
hardware.
S> Conestoga College... But that concien
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From Gus to Warsong on 10:25 am Wed Nov 22, 1995
G> depends what you want the program for.. Netscape is the most used.. i'd go
G> with that.. for an IRC program, use mIRC.. just do a net search for all
G> winsock utils and take yer pick.. they have ftp programs, telnet programs,
G> gopher programs.. everything..
W>
W> Really? D
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From Night to Servility on 6:14 pm Wed Nov 22, 1995
S> Sure... I have an unlimited supply of free RAM would you like some? Will
S> 32 megs hold you over? :)... No I don't know where to get RAM free... well
S> Conestoga College... But that conciense of yours... :)
well....i go there.... and i haven't picked up any yet... :(
L8rz.
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From Bubba to Jays Fan on 2:09 am Thu Nov 23, 1995
B>
B> Well, it keeps the totall number of megs it saves to like 5 (you can configu
B> this though) :)
JF>
JF> Hmmm, I gotta play around with this more.. I'm just starting to configure m
JF> viewers and audio players for different types of files.. now I got Netscape
JF> 2.0b2, and
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From Nevada to Warsong on 6:52 pm Thu Nov 23, 1995
JF> Just use QEMM 8.0 if ya got win95, (works with just dos too), and it'll giv
JF> you the option of putting in magnaram, which is a ram doubler..
W>
W> Does the doubler really work? I've tried Softram 95, and all it seemed to do
W> was slow down my machine, and cause a few prob
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From Nevada to Warsong on 6:52 pm Thu Nov 23, 1995
N> They sure as heck are...they're putting $$$ into the company's pocke
N> who make these phony swap file programs. I have these things too, and took
N> them off the system, just too much conflict, slowdowns, etc....
W>
W> You too, huh? Yeah, those things just seem like a big sca
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From Excalibur to Warsong on 8:37 pm Sat Nov 25, 1995
JF> Just use QEMM 8.0 if ya got win95, (works with just dos too), and it'll giv
JF> you the option of putting in magnaram, which is a ram doubler..
W>
W> Does the doubler really work? I've tried Softram 95, and all it seemed to do
W> was slow down my machine, and cause a few prob
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From Excalibur to Bubba on 8:37 pm Sat Nov 25, 1995
JF> Well, you have to download them in a sense.. it has to send you the whole
JF> file first, then whatever program you have netscape configured to show
JF> gifs/jpgs will kick in once it's done and show it to you.. it's not actuall
JF> saved on your HD though..
JF>
B>
B> Actuall
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From Warsong to Excalibur on 9:56 pm Sat Nov 25, 1995
E> I was reading Byte today, and it was saying that they tested these ram
E> doublers, and that they're effectively useless and do slow down your system.
Why did it take so long for someone to figure this out? It should have been
revealed the week it was released. Oh well...
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From Nevada to Warsong on 10:16 am Tue Nov 28, 1995
E> I was reading Byte today, and it was saying that they tested these ram
E> doublers, and that they're effectively useless and do slow down your system.
W>
W> Why did it take so long for someone to figure this out? It should have been
W> revealed the week it was released. Oh wel
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From Warsong to Nevada on 5:11 pm Tue Nov 28, 1995
W> Why did it take so long for someone to figure this out? It should have been
W> revealed the week it was released. Oh well...
N>
N> Does the word, money make sense, of course the company isn't going to
N> release this info, they pushed it like mad, and when enuf people bought i
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From Nevada to Warsong on 4:35 pm Wed Nov 29, 1995
W> Why did it take so long for someone to figure this out? It should have been
W> revealed the week it was released. Oh well...
N>
N> Does the word, money make sense, of course the company isn't going to
N> release this info, they pushed it like mad, and when enuf people bought i