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Harvard's e-mail processing system froze for several hours last weekend after the mail server locked up while trying to download a program from another machine, Burner said...
Suddenly the Internet is the place to be. College students are queuing up outside computing centers to get online. Executives are ordering new business cards that show off their Internet addresses. Millions of people around the world are logging on to tap into libraries, call up satellite weather photos, download free computer programs and participate in discussion groups with everyone from lawyers to physicists to sadomasochists. Even the President and Vice President have their own Internet accounts (although they aren't very good at answering their mail). "It's the Internet boom," says network activist Mitch Kapor, who thinks...
Both NT and Windows feature multi-tasking of this second sort. But NT does a better job as its task assignment algorithm is better. What all this means to the user is that while in NT you can format a disk and download files from your husc account at the same time, this is impossible with Windows...
...number (or E- mail "address") but also what system he subscribes to (MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, CompuServe, Prodigy, Internet, etc.). To receive a message, you have to hook your computer to a modem, start a communications program, dial into the remote computer where your mail is stored and download the message into your computer...
...Network connection offers a much wider variety of resources, and students can download faster through the network than through a modem," said Gary R. Holmes, manager for HSDN and network planning information...