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Turnpike (software)

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The suite consisted of two principal components, Connect, which interfaced with the modem driver or LAN, and Turnpike, which controlled, sorted and displayed news articles and email. The Connect window also provided
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Although Turnpike is no longer supported by its manufacturers (who have themselves been the subject of assorted takeovers, mergers, etcetera), there is still (2017) a reasonably active
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book by Keith Teare, published at the end of 1995, contained a brief review of version 1.03 of Turnpike, which had been released in July of that year.
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later the same year and for a number of years was supplied to their customers free of charge (in a variant which would not work with other
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functions, call cost monitoring for dialup connections, and, in earlier versions and those upgraded therefrom,
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has among its collection a copy of an early version of the software in its original packaging.
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port was produced, all versions worked satisfactorily under packages such as the proprietary
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It works with Windows up to (as of 2016) Windows version 10, with the caveat that Turnpike
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running 32-bit Windows hosted on machines running the 64-bit versions). Although no
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Versions 4 and beyond were 32-bit, and early versions of 5 included
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Amongst its early reviews were those in the magazines
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Microsoft Windows
Locomotive Software
Demon Internet
ISPs
PC Format
telnet
finger
ping
traceroute
Ipswitch
WS_FTP
Internet Explorer
Windows Shell namespace
regular expressions
Berkeley mailbox format
PGP
virtual machines
Linux
Win4Lin
Wine
Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval
usenet
newsgroup
Science Museum Group
"Short Take: ScottishTelecom to purchase Demon Internet", 1 May 1998
Googlebooks extract from The Easy Net book by Keith Teare, Dec 1995
ISBN
978-1-85032-252-8
Wine application DB entry for Turnpike 5.01U
GNKSA Evaluations

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