Other changes in the update include better performance for high speed serial transfers and improved compatibility with Excel 4.0, Apple PowerPC Upgrade cards, and future System updates. Speed Access 1.1 corrects a problem whereby an uncommon combination of file system calls could cause a disk directory error. Important News for Speed Doubler Users - Late last week, Connectix released Speed Doubler 1.1 to correct a serious problem with the Speed Access component of Speed Doubler. Here’s hoping that the other online services follow suit and find similar methods of supporting the Internet community. Commercial online services can easily take from the Internet without giving anything back AOL’s Give Back to the Net program elegantly avoids this problem. As the commercial online services added features that enabled their users to access the Internet, one concern was that the influx of users would place a significant drain on free Internet resources. It’s great to see AOL being a good Internet citizen in this fashion. As part of the Give Back to the Net program, America Online will be sponsoring TidBITS for the next year.
I think AOL’s best move in regard to the Internet has been their Give Back to the Net program, which has funded a number of Internet projects and has established an FTP site that helps spread the load for mirror networks like Info-Mac and UMich. The AOL software now supports FTP includes a Web browser. They offered a free Internet email gateway when that was unusual and were the first commercial online service to provide access to Gopher and WAIS databases. We’ve razzed AOL on occasion for blitzing us with AOL software disks, but as the commercial online services go, AOL has been the most forward-thinking. Giving Back to the Net - We’re pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, America Online, the largest of the commercial online services. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.
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