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From: Anssi Saari
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:14

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Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes:

> Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> writes:
>> Be thankful you weren't going online earlier in the 2400 days (or
>> earlier.)  56K was SCREAMINGLY fast compared to that.
>
> ... and compared to 300 baud, 2400 was _heaven_...
>
> [I've played rogue over a 300 baud dialup ... it was ... well.]

I never did but I guess that's why the game had a terse mode for short
messages...

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