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   Scott Dorsey to YourName@YourISP.com   
   Re: Pearls Before Swine: Cell Phone Upda   
   19 Oct 25 10:06:53   
   
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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >   
   >No, but there's no real reason the C64 couldn't do email and web   
   >browsing then (if it had existed) or even now ... other than the fact   
   >that websites have also become very over-bloated, and again mostly with   
   >gimmicky nonsense.   
      
   IP is pretty heavyweight.  I did IP (well, SLIP) on CP/M in order to   
   run SMTP and it was a bit of adventure fitting it into 64k.  Would not   
   care to try anything bigger than SMTP.   
   --scott   
      
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