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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > Haven`t you thought the same when you first used Arachne as you think
> > now of BL3 ?
>
> But Arachne comes with installation wizards, 140 kb of help
> files, another 129 kb of files in the DOC subdirectory, and
> another 130k of examples.
>
> That all makes it a LOT easier for the new user.

I found Arachne much more confusing and somewhat buggy.  BL1 worked for me 
right away when I read the instructions to install it to hard drive.

> > This email sent from a 1Mby 20Mhz 80286.... who needs more ?

I have sent emails from an XT with no hard drive.  Is that all you want to 
do with your computer?

> LOL! Yeah, it puts it right up those people who insist that you need a
> 2 GHz processor, 40 GB of HDD and a Gb of RAM just to send and receieve
> mail <GGGGGGGGG>
>
> And those 286's will keep chugging on and on and on.......

I hear that later computers were more energy efficient.

Welcome back to the list.

> .  /     \     from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia

Sindi