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Re: Getting a IIe online.



brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) wrote:
> Tom left this scat:
>
>    | works reliably with Genie. It's also designed to work well in
>    | small memory/storage setups.  PT3 wants lots of both.
>
>ProTerm 3.0 and previous would take all available memory, but 3.1 gives
>you the option of telling it how much you want it to have.  So even
>people with a few megs of RAM can assign only 128k and leave the rest
>alone.  Used to be on my //e I had PT31 use the bottom 560k of my
>1.5M RamWorksIII with the rest of the memory as a ramdisk (not owning a
>hard drive at the time) so I could download big QWKs and reply offline.

I'm not sure what your point is.  I wouldn't want to use PT3.1 on a 
regular basis on any Apple that had less than 256K of RAM.  But I ran 
Modem MGR on a II+ for over a year and found it to be very good at making 
the best of a poor hardware situation, feature- and convenience-wise.

TomZ