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So you thought you needed a Pentium to "surf
the net"? Now you can get on with your 386, 286, 8088, or
even Psion 3A, using the latest version of NetTamer from David
Colston's Net
Tamer Hompage
I used this program on a 286 with a 20MB HDD and 640K RAM to
access my PPP account while I was in Korea. It's a DOS based
program that allows you to telnet, ftp, or even browse the web (text
mode for 286 or slower), or access POP-3 and SMTP mail servers.
Being an decendant of old, tight, Welch miners, I personally
think this is great!
BTW, if you are on your way to Korea to serve the
U.S. military, Eighth US Army (EUSA) policy was permitting
limited use (about two years ago) of the military email systems
for Morale and Welfare purposes, (i.e. to communicate with family
members in CONUS). The Korean Wide Area Network (KWAN)
could be accessed through dial-up using Class-B DSN lines (mostly
9600 bps, although I've since heard they've upgraded), and
supported PPP, POP-3, SMTP or a standard terminal emulation
interface, using simple communications programs such as MS
Windows Terminal, or DOS based PROCOMM V2.4.
Since then, though, there has been an exposion of
online email accounts available on the web.
As with all things regarding information systems, change is
constant, and OBE (overcome by events) is the prototypical state.
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