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Message no. 1
From: Paul Shryer <passman@**.DULUTH.MN.US>
Subject: Shadowland and 32 bit OS's
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:10:04 -0500
At 09:16 PM 2/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Why does it require a 32 bit CPU to access a web site?
>>That seems very.... strange.....
>The sight is all Java Enhanced, or some such drek... I think it's to keep
>deckers like myself who are seriously behind the SOTA (Win 3.1) out...:):)
>Bull

Not true. There is a 16 bit version of Netscape (on netscape's site) that
supports Java. Theoritically you could use this to access Shadowland. I
would not recommend it though unless you have somthing better than a 386sx
w/4megs as it takes about 1 hour to load on that system.

Passman
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Where no one else may pass,
Enter The Passman

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