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Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the answer-to-a-question-that-didn't-need-asking dept.

GP writes "Now even die-hard Commodore 64 users are able to enjoy the benefits of broadband Internet connectivity. A newly announced Ethernet card together with the Contiki operating system lets you surf the web, send e-mail, host web sites with the built-in web server, and soon even play LAN games on your good old Commodore 64! All this with a computer that is old enough to drink."

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  1. Re:New kind of bottle neck by Sancho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simply not true. "Broadband" can have much, much higher latency than dialup. Just look at satellite connections. It's simple physics that the signal has to go from earth to orbit and back, which takes time.