Re: Apple IIgs

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Will Smith (wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com) wrote:
: On 21 Jan 1998 03:30:17 GMT, shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy
: Shackelford) wrote:

: |>It's easiest to use the keyword APPLE on AOL since you're on there, and you 
: |>can get all of Apple's system software 'n stuff there. All of Apple's own
: |>sites are totally clogged since the Mac OS 8.1 update came out yesterday
: |>and everyone in the free world is trying to download it. I gave up and got
: |>8.1 off AOL after both Netscape and good ol' unix FTP croaked trying to
: |>get it from Apple.

: wow...  THERE'S a first!  AOL is actually good for something!  <g>

Here's another one--
Say a website suddenly becomes very popular and it becomes clogged, even
though the data on it isn't changing.  Since AOL caches lots of pages,
odds are you could get the data via AOL even when the rest of the 'Net
can't get to the site...because AOL can give you the data from its own cache.

Same general idea, actually.  I guess it is darned inconvenient at times,
but then, I don't use AOL...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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