Hello again, Neil,
I have used Opera in both 16-bit and 32-bit
environments. The 16-bit version 3.62 is stable
as a rock. Very low resource usage.
I don't even know where you'd find a JVM for
16-bit Windows. Never tried that.
You might also look into the NewDeal OS.
Has its own browser and all that. This is a
not-even-remotely Microsoft OS. Runs on
top of DOS. URL: www.newdealinc.com
It's not free, but the feature comparison chart
shows it doing multi-tasking and multi-threading
(over DOS!) on 286 machines. Holy cow!
I'll be getting a copy for myself, but it's not a
today thing. Got some hardware I've gotta
upgrade for my son first.
You don't by any chance have a shell account
with your ISP, do you?
Regards,
Garry Hamilton
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From: "Taylor Moore Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:58 PM
Subject: [SurvPC] Which web browser for a DX66?
> I am so bewildered by the choice of 16 bit web browsers
> that I thought I'd ask for recommendations here.
>
> For:
> DX66 12MB RAM About 1GB disk space partitioned in 120KB
> lots with DOS6.22 & Windows 3.11.
>
> I don't understand the huge differences in installation
> size between browsers, anything from about 3 to 80 MB!
> I am also amazed to see that you can get IE5 and Netscape4
> in 16bit.
>
> Don't understand why Netscape have every browser they ever
> produced for download on their web site and MS only the
> latest 32bit.
>
> Is a Java enobbled browser an unavoidable necessity?
>
> Obviously on this low end machine I'm not going to try for
> running videos or anything, and the screen res remains at
> 640 X 480 and 265colour. Mainly I want it for text based
> information, but I want something which doesn't crash too
> much and handles the unnecessarily high end features those
> with 22" monitors can't understand the likes of me
> struggling with!
>
> Personal recommendations welcome, or web sites which help
> make comparisons based on need and size/sys requirements.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Best wishes, Neil Taylor
>
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