Date   : Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:58:37 -0800
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: Re: BEEB Stuff

MJBramham@... writes:
>see it do something different for a change.  What is wrong with 
>sending/receiving mail if you can?  I would see that as only a small step on 
>from viewing Teletext, which I have done on the BEEB for years.  This isn't 
>about state-of-the-art, this is about not deducting from the usefulness of a 
>machine simply because there are others that are more advanced.

The only problem I would have with it is the volume of email. My current
incoming mailbox is over 2MB, and I process hundreds of kB per week. Fitting
that on a Beeb would be hard. I still prefer a text-only interface to email
(VM on emacs; much more configurable and much more secure than anything
Micro$oft has ever produced).

Having said that, I would love to be able to have my beebs as peers on my
home TCP/IP network (currently 2 Linux boxes, 2 Win2K, one Mac and two
Beebs), just for the bizarre satisfaction of being able to ping it from
somewhere else in the world :-)

a.