speeding up computers (was Re: Terminals...)

[Liam Proven]

On 24 August 2010 14:55, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
>>Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
>
>>> The real problem is windows.  They load it up with bloat so that you
>>> need a faster processor and more memory, then drop support for older
>>> versions that didn't do so much crud.  The end result is that you're
>>> forced into upgrading to a slower operating system (that is, it's
>>> doing more) at the same time you're upgrading to faster hardware.
>>
>> Am I the only one here who uses windows XP and windows 2000 for a LONG
>> time (without reformatting) and everything works? :oO
>
> I am just about to upgrade from Windows 98SE (used since 2002) to a Windows
> XP
> system.  I want to use Windows XP to run exactly the same 2 applications as
> the
> current system (750 MHz PIII), i.e. Netscape 7.2 and Ersatz-11.
>
> I am about to install Netscape on the Windows XP system since I want to drag
> along
> all of the old archives (more than 10 years of e-mails and Usenet).

Netscape 7.2 was horrible when it was current and it is ancient now.
Do yourself a favour, update to SeaMonkey. It's the same codebase, but
a decade more polished, and it uses the same file formats for
mail/news as Netscape Communicator, the old Mozilla suite and
Thunderbird. The reason being that it's the latest version of the same
code as Netscape 7.x and Mozilla Suite.


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