29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
4:27 a.m.
At 11:05 PM -0500 9/28/05, Scott Stevens wrote:
Right now I am trawling around the net on a Quadra 650,
to see what is
possible and what's not. Some interesting surprises I am finding. The
'Low End Mac' website crashes when you try to go there on a Quadra 650
using Netscape 4. Huh? Internet Explorer 4.01 is still available for
Mac 68k if you trawl around enough looking for it. (don't bother
looking at Microsoft)
68030 and 68040 based Mac's are still very usable with the right
software for Office type apps, or kids apps. However, going surfing
on the web pretty much requires modern software.
Not as interesting as the time I installed Windows NT
for PowerPC on an
RS/6000 box and trawled around trying to find anything AT ALL on the net
that it would run. (You're stuck with the Internet Explorer 2.0 that
comes built into NT, which _won't_ _even_ _load_ _www.microsoft.com_
_anymore._
The sad thing is, I have an AlphaStation 500/333 with a puny 96MB
RAM, and since it has so little RAM, WinNT runs better on it than
OpenVMS or Tru64 :^( Needless to say, it's sitting on a shelf,
rather than being used. One of these days I hope to find an
affordable 128MB or 256MB RAM kit for it. I bought it from Compaq,
and it's the system that taught me to check RAM prices before
choosing an older system! It was cheaper to buy a PWS 433au, than to
try and get more RAM.
Zane
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