Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/09/02:58:51
On 8 Feb 98, Eli Zaretskii was found to have commented thusly:
>
> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, S. M. Halloran wrote:
>
> > I do intend to give Emacs a try, but with abysmally poor Internet
> > service in this part of the globe, it took weeks just to ftp (and I
> > am using the 'reget' feature of the protocol by the way) the basic
> > djgpp and rhide implentations, and getting the extras may take
> > longer.
>
> The basic Emacs distribution is 4 zip files each one of which fits on
> a floppy. This is not so much, I think.
I think the point was not how big the package is, but what kind
of Internet service each of us has. In the developed world I can ftp
10 MB in a matter of minutes through a university super-router
connection to the backbone. Where I am now, it can take a whole day
or more just to DL 100 KB, which would include resuming stopped
(timed out) connections several times. It is the price one pays for
living in parts of the world which give higher investment priorities
for luxury motor-vehicles even for low-ranking government
bureaucrats as opposed to providing even the type of Internet
bandwidth to what they call top universities here which are
found for children at primary schools in certain developed countries.
You are lucky to live in a place that values information technology
and provide you with the ability to get that information now rather
than obtain it in constant frustration.
Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr
other job title: Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy
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