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From: "S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:58:08 +0200
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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