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From: debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: Sega Dreamcrash
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:52:39 +0200
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Mike Hatfield <mhatfield@ridgeway-sys.com> wrote:

> From:
> http://www.pa.press.net/news/technology/TECHNOLOGY_Segabug_78004.html
> 
> SEGA BROWSER BUG
> 
> The web browser built into Sega's new Dreamcast games console has a problem
> coping with some e-mail messages, it has been shown.
> 
> Just days after the Dreamcast was launched in America, prompting huge sales,
> a computer expert discovered a problem with its built-in Internet software.
> 
> If the browser tries to open mail messages with very long subject lines, it
> crashes, telling users: "An internal error has occurred. Please contact
> Sega."
> 
> 
> Raises some interesting issues though:
> (i) Have Sega built-in an "update over the Internet" capability for their
> firmware?
> (ii) Will Sony do the same for PSX2 (if/when the modem is released)?
> 
> Mike


I see no future yet for a good intergration of internet and consoles..
Maybe in the next generation (after PS2)..

DEnnis..