From: Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>
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To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [Plug] Bandwidth sharing
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
try wget(1) for unattended downloads...hardly uses any memory...
start it in differnet windows...
there's not all that much bandwidth to slice up on a modem connection
anyway.
k
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On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:05:48AM -0700, Nick R wrote:
> > Well you could launch 2 different instances of netscape.
> >
>
> And waste all your ram. Netscape is very unfriendly
> about taking lots of ram, and doing a *lot* of disk reading. It and
> gcc are the only two programs I have that will bring my computer to a
> complete halt for long periods of time.
>
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