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Optimally, the interested reader will have:

• direct access to the Internet (i.e. 10Mb/sec Ethernet)
• Netscape 1.1 or higher as a Web browser
• a current, fully equiped workstation or PC with 8-bit gaphics (or better)
• agents capable of interpreting most forms of multi-media to be found on the Web:
  • text formats - DVI, PostScript, etc.
  • audio - WAV, AU, etc.
  • movie - MPEG, QUICKTIME, etc.
  • images - GIF, JPG, TIFF, RGB, XBM, etc.

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Minimally, a reader must have:

• low speed access to the Internet (eg. 14.4K modem)
• networking support (i.e. SLIP, PPP)
• a text-based Web browser

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In the minimal case, the content is still largely accessible except for the HTML-based representations which rely on in-line graphics. In many cases, the benefits of the enhancements are also lost since they employ graphics as well. The unenhanced documents are, however, downloadable.

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