Thomas wrote:
> I suppose with 8 MB RAM, DOS might be the best bet for Internet access.
> Maybe Win3.1 with an older Netscape or MSIE might serve where needed?
For a laptop with 8MB RAM but a dead hard drive I use Arachne
exclusively, thereby keeping a machine from a flight into a dumpster/skip.
With 12MB RAM (and a working HDD) I keep copies (several) of Arachne,
plus Opera3.6x, MSIE3.x and NN3.x. I've tried NN2.x but it's too outdated.
MSIE3's Java Virtual Machine requires 12MB RAM.
The laptop with dead HDD is a 486DX4-100 that arrived with Win95.
I should've timed it, but with only 8MB RAM, 32-bit versions of
lean software like Opera and FoxMail all seemed slower than their
Win3.1x equivalents on a 486-25.
Regards,
Jake
-- the World on a floppy --
-- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
