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echo: muffin
to: mark lewis
from: Mike Tripp
date: 2003-06-14 08:54:50
subject: Squish progress

Hello mark!

13 Jun 03 21:04, mark lewis wrote to Mike Tripp:

 ml> that's why its up to /them/ to split... they are restricted only by
 ml> their hardware limitations...

[...]

 ml> if those in fido's history has really known this, there wouldn't have
 ml> been software with line (!) limits and there would have been more
 ml> software that was able to handle larger messages than 16k, 32k and
 ml> 64k...

They were probably restricted by their hardware limitations. :)

360K floppies, 20mb hard drives (w/32mb max partitions), and 300baud modems
definitely set a different ceiling than the 2gb we're fretting over today.

.\\ike

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