Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I am currently using Netscape 7.2 under Windows 98SE.
Has anyone any experience migrating all of the files to a
32 bit Windows XP?
I have over ten years worth of e-mails and posts from
previous versions of Netscape as well as the current
version that I very much wish to retain as is.
In addition, I just tested the Win32 variant (a 32 bit
program, of course) of V6.0 Ersatz-11 under a 64 bit
Windows 7. It seemed to work very well running at
about twice the speed of an older system which was
running under Windows XP. Does anyone have any
experience in a migration of Netscape 7.2 to a 64 bit
Windows 7 system? If Netscape 7.2 and Ersatz-11
can work well using a 64 bit Windows 7 system, then
I may skip all the in-between OSs from Microsoft and
go directly to a 64 bit Windows 7.
I know that there are many (and much better systems)
than Microsoft, but at 74 years old, I don't feel like taking
the time and effort to learn them well enough to set up.
My son will set up a system for me and I can just do
the migration. I would much rather stay with RT-11,
but I don't believe that it can do a reasonable job with
e-mail, if at all. PLUS, under that 64 bit Windows 7
system, RT-11 running under Ersatz-11 has a speed
of about 150 times a PDP-11/93.
Jerome Fine
Jerome I do actually know of a guy thats older as you and is happyly
using one of the (german) Linux Distributions (Suse).
I don't know if Ersatz-11 is available as native Linux version, but even
the Windows Emulator Wine isn't that green anymore that one couldn't try to
run Ersatz-11 on that emulator. If tthat would'nt work, there is always
simh (wich I'm using und FreeBSD).
Simply try to import you Netscape Mail into a actual Thunderbird on another
machine, I've never tried that but I think it will just work..
Regards,
Holm
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