8 bit vs other Computers.

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Mon Nov 25 08:11:01 2002

> Depends upon what you do. For word processing, yes, what we have is a bit
> overkill, but now a days I can keep an editor, my email client and a web
> browser going. Email because I'm addicted, and the web browser so I can do
> research using Google. While you can get an IP stack for the C-64, TCP is a
> bit of a heavy-weight protocol and I'm not sure if you can have that, and a
> browser (even text based) in 64K of RAM.

Who says you need TCP/IP in the C64 to do web browsing? *innocent smile*

http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/cwi/hl/

Strictly speaking, this is cheating, but it works. I demonstrated this with
a Lantronix UDS-10 Ethernet-to-serial interface at VCF5.

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