Internet on a Powerbook 520 thru a Powermac 8600 with serial?

Hi,
I want to be able to browse the web on either my 520 or 1400 PowerBook which both run OS 7.6.1 thru a serial cable connected to my PowerMac 8600 which runs OS 9.2.2. I havent a clue on how to do this and everytime I try I cant get it to work so please give detailed instructions.
Thanks

OK, now we'll reopen the discussion of RAM Doubler that we had a few days ago. Unlike real RAM, RD doesn't speed anything up; it just lets you have more applications open at once than you'd be able to otherwise. It doesn't let you allocate any more RAM to any application than the difference between what the OS itself uses and the total amount of real RAM you have installed. So If you had 64MB of Real RAM and your OS used 40MB of it, and you set RAM Doubler up to triple the 64MB to 192MB (the maximum RD will allow), you would still only have a maximum of 24MB or a little less to allocate to any single application — not enough for a memory-hogging web browser. If your OS and one application together call for more RAM than the amount of physical RAM that's installed, you crash.
But under those same circumstances, you would be able to assign 20-23MB of RAM to each of several applications and have them all open at once — something you could never do with that OS, that Mac, and no RD. So the question with respect to RD is, "Is that something you need to do?" If it isn't, RD wouldn't be worth having.
The fastest 1400 has a 166MHz PPC 603e processor, 512k of video RAM, and no graphics acceleration. The slowest iMac DV has a 350MHz G3, 8MB of VRAM, and a modest graphics card. It's 4-6 times faster than the 1400C/166 for most purposes, and I would expect that to be the case for loading and redrawing web pages.

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