Liam Proven wrote:
On 24 August
2010 14:55, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
The real problem is windows. They load it up with
bloat so that you
need a faster processor and more memory, then drop support for older
versions that didn't do so much crud. The end result is that you're
forced into upgrading to a slower operating system (that is, it's
doing more) at the same time you're upgrading to faster hardware.
Am I the only one here who uses windows XP and windows 2000 for a LONG
time (without reformatting) and everything works? :oO
I am just about to upgrade from Windows 98SE (used since 2002) to a Windows XP
system. I want to use Windows XP to run exactly the same 2 applications as the
current system (750 MHz PIII), i.e. Netscape 7.2 and Ersatz-11.
I am about to install Netscape on the Windows XP system since I want to drag along
all of the old archives (more than 10 years of e-mails and Usenet).
Netscape 7.2 was horrible when it was current and it is ancient now.
Do yourself a favour, update to SeaMonkey. It's the same codebase, but
a decade more polished, and it uses the same file formats for
mail/news as Netscape Communicator, the old Mozilla suite and
Thunderbird. The reason being that it's the latest version of the same
code as Netscape 7.x and Mozilla Suite.
Aside from the fact that Netscape 7.2 has features (which I use every
day) that current Internet
Explorer does not have, it seems to serve my purposes when I want to
look at the classiccmp list.
So it comes across as great that SeaMonkey would possibly allow me to
keep all of my e-mail
and classiccmp correspondence as is. Do you have a link to SeaMonkey?
When I Google
for SeaMonkey, there does not seem to be a browser available.
Also, there seems to be a Netscape 8.0 available. Might that be better
than Netscape 7.2
even if not as good as SeaMonkey? My goal is to have something that
works equally well
since as far as I am concerned, if my current memory could expand to 2
GB (motherboard
is limited to 756 MB), I would stay with Windows 98SE. The speed of the
core 2 duo
is not a major benefit although I will not throw it away if it is there.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that Netscape 8.0 was not really
compatible with
Netscape 7.2 which may have been why I avoided the upgrade when it became
available. Can anyone comment on this possibility?
In addition, as opposed to my PDP-11/83 which still runs after 20 years,
I seriously doubt
that there are more than a few years left with my 2002 PC system. All
the disk drives have
been replaced and the power supply replaced twice in addition to needing
a separate power
supply for the hard drives at this point or the system will not boot.
Jerome Fine
