I wouldn't even think of running any 7.xx versions on it unless I just had a
very small amount of RAM installed. They're all buggy and written almost
entirely in 680x0 code, which just makes it dog-slow on the cacheless 100
MHz 603e installed in a standard 5300. If you have about 24 MB or more, you
A lot will depend on how much RAM you have and whether
you are using an older hard drive (like me) or a
newer, faster one.
I run 8.6 and I only have 24mb, but almost all I do is
word processing or the like, and even in Word, it's
not that bad. Originally, I got online thru Earthlink
dial up using
