All this year I've used Internet Explorer 5.0 and Outlook Express 5.02 on a G3 MT
running OS 9.1 at 333 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. Virtual Memory is on, set at 257 MB.
I've never had a problem with either of these programs. But they are the default
browser and e-mail programs for OS 9.1, and the machine has plenty of memory to cope
with them. I've always found it's best to use the software designed for the OS and
allow plenty of memory. Obvious, but true.
I don't intend to move to OS 10 until I have to (and that may be never) because
everything works just fine now.
By the way, did you ever see any of the graphics for the Sydney 2000 Olympics? They
were probably designed on this Mac. The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic
Games had just two Macs - a G4 and this G3 - among its hundreds of PCs. I bought the
G3 at the Remains of the Games auction of SOCOG equipment late last year.
Just a happy memory in these trying times.
God bless America!
Keith McLennan
Sydney, Australia
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:36:44 Joel Rodrigues wrote:
>Ola,
>
>We use Outlook Express 5.02 (on OS 8.1) here at home to manage 11 email
>accounts. I'm waiting on OS 10.1, when I intend to cease using Microsoft
>products.
>
>MSIE 5 is nice when it works, but freezing the entire machine over a flaw in
>the web page (HTML or scripting language) and not offering any solution, bug
>fix, or even acknowledgement of this as a problem is inexcusable.
>
>Outlook Express mostly has been very reliable. I got got version 5 soon as
>it was released, and used v. 4.5 before that. However, it did crash once
>damaging some saved mail and it's intolerably slow when displaying HTML
>mail.
>
>I did use Communicator for a while. I've got Communicator 4.78 and do use it
>sometimes, but Navigator is slow and bizarre in it's behaviour. iCab has
>become my main browser. It's small (both in it's use of disk space & RAM),
>if it crashes it doen't take the entire system down, and saves web pages
>(instantly, unlike IE which reloads the page to save) as zipped (compressed)
>archives which take up a lot less space than IE's archives. On my system it
>does exhibit fairly frequent "quit with an error of type 2 errors" which I
>suspect has to do with OS 8.1.
>
>So how many of you have moved or are planning to move to OS X soon ?
>
>Tchau
>- Joel
>
>
>on 20/09/2001 10:55, John Teffer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I used Netscape 4's mail with about 4 very active email accounts (for
>> myself, more counting my siblings'), and it is frustrating. The best I
>> could do was write an Apple Script to quit and re-launch Netscape, so I
>> could quickly check my other email addresses. I finally got sick of that
>> (and bought more RAM) and now use a different email program that lets me
>> check all my accounts at once.
>
>
>
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