YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:05 PM -0500 9/28/05, Scott Stevens wrote:
>Right now I am trawling around the net on a Quadra 650, to see what is
>possible and what's not.  Some interesting surprises I am finding.  The
>'Low End Mac' website crashes when you try to go there on a Quadra 650
>using Netscape 4.  Huh?  Internet Explorer 4.01 is still available for
>Mac 68k if you trawl around enough looking for it.  (don't bother
>looking at Microsoft)

68030 and 68040 based Mac's are still very usable with the right 
software for Office type apps, or kids apps.  However, going surfing 
on the web pretty much requires modern software.

>Not as interesting as the time I installed Windows NT for PowerPC on an
>RS/6000 box and trawled around trying to find anything AT ALL on the net
>that it would run.  (You're stuck with the Internet Explorer 2.0 that
>comes built into NT, which _won't_ _even_ _load_ _www.microsoft.com_
>_anymore._

The sad thing is, I have an AlphaStation 500/333 with a puny 96MB 
RAM, and since it has so little RAM, WinNT runs better on it than 
OpenVMS or Tru64 :^(  Needless to say, it's sitting on a shelf, 
rather than being used.  One of these days I hope to find an 
affordable 128MB or 256MB RAM kit for it.  I bought it from Compaq, 
and it's the system that taught me to check RAM prices before 
choosing an older system!  It was cheaper to buy a PWS 433au, than to 
try and get more RAM.

		Zane


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