Speccy & Internet

Once upon a time, specifically Thursday August 14, 1997 at 04:36 pm Evgeny Milun
wrote by Tim Yunaev:

TY>> Uh-huh. Or rather, the speed at which the processor can still take
TY>> bytes from the modem buffer.
EM> Again, this is if there is transmission/reception without DMA.

How do you imagine working with a modem (at least ZMODEM) via DMA?

TY>> It can be done. Once upon a time we made a device for connecting
TY>> a video camera to Speccy, where information from the camera was driven into the upper memory through a large
TY>> ADC, while the processor was resting. There would be
TY>> desire.
EM> You are right, there would be desire. And since it doesn’t seem to exist, then...

Meaning?

With respect, Tim. [Team AMD - Amiga Must Die]
[Team Aries Rulez Forever]

Saturday 16 Aug 1997 15:25, Victor Bilyk wrote to Evgeny Milun:

VB> But WWW... By the way, when connecting to the Internet they pay for the time
VB> on the line, and due to the fact that on WWW the spec will be cool
VB> slow down, a lot of money will flow in vain! :(

It will not slow down, because the spec will accept a page without graphics, video and
music - only text. It’s the same as working with a terminal BBS.

People from Kharkov can confirm this.

Sincerely, Alexey Ivanov

AI> Will not slow down, because speck will accept a page without graphics, video
AI> and music - only text. It's the same as working with a terminal BBS.

What can you order from WWW, what can you download? And what kind of WWW will this be, with bare text? Is it possible to organize a network of servers that will convert graphics and TT fonts into a digestible format for
Spectrum?

Bye!
Sincerely, Amadeus Voxon (Flash Inc.)

AI>> without graphics, video and music - only text. This
AI>> is the same as working with a terminal BBS.

MB> What can you order from WWW, what can you download? And what kind of
MB> WWW will it be, with bare text?

Historically, the web began with this. And even now on many systems
pages are in text format. Abuse of graphics has long been considered
bad taste (the traffic is large, the channels are slow due to the huge number of
users.

MB> Is it possible to organize a network
MB> of servers that will convert for Spectrum into
MB> a readable format of graphics and TT fonts?

Convert only manually. And how will the spec accept all this, with screens?
Yes It’s cheaper and easier to accept 2 kilos of text than 18 kilos on three screens.

When working on a line from Spectrum, no disks are enough. And ordinary WWW
can be viewed freely in text format, without any conversion.

Sometimes they order pages from us (network on C-DOS), we transmit them to the network in the form of simple
text.

Yours sincerely, Alexey Ivanov