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Gabu

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Posted on 03-29-11 10:18:48 PM (last edited by Gabu at 03-29-11 07:23 PM) Link | Quote
Operating system-wise? Before your favorite webpages start to break apart? I'm talking about anything you have, even if it's on a bootable disc somewhere.

I'm asking because I am running Knoppix 3.6 on the Linux for Dummies CD I got with the book yesterday for almost nothing. Jul renders just fine (though I get italics in my font), but Youtube just falls apart completely.

Edit: Also a very neat thing I'm finding out is just how QUIET my computer is while running this (minus CD reading). I think I'm scared thet my CPU just can't handle some applications today.

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Posted on 03-29-11 10:39:15 PM Link | Quote
I ran Midori in FreeBSD over a Pentium III with 256MB of RAM once. Everything was soooo slow, but it was usable. I've used YouTube on that same laptop in Arch Linux with some difficulty.

I guess that's probably the lowest I've gone.

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Posted on 03-29-11 11:11:21 PM Link | Quote
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Windows 3.11 with an old version of Opera can run most of the web, but rather poorly.

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Posted on 03-29-11 11:16:07 PM Link | Quote




#58
Internet Explorer 7 on Vista, but a better version of both

Or just now, I tried Opera 3.0, which works but doesn't support any CSS or even PNG


I once went here from my old Pentium 200MHz running Windows 98 and Netscape 6 (still works decently, just a bit slow obviously), but of course I could go even farther with virtual machines or emulators

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Nicole

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Posted on 03-29-11 11:26:27 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Milly
I once went here from my old Pentium 200MHz running Windows 98 and Netscape 6 (still works decently, just a bit slow obviously), but of course I could go even farther with virtual machines or emulators

This is similar to how I accessed the board back in the day, too... down to the same processor speed. (That 200Mhz Pentium was pretty common, it seems)

I've accessed the board using AWeb in an Amiga emulator before, if that counts... this laptop doesn't dual-boot with any other OS than Vista, and I have no bootable disks around...

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Posted on 03-29-11 11:52:36 PM Link | Quote




#58
And now Netscape 3.02 Gold, which actually makes Opera 3.0 look like a nice browser for its time ... someone should try with Internet Explorer 3 or 4, or on Windows 3.1

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Posted on 03-30-11 01:11:25 AM (last edited by Illumina at 03-29-11 10:12 PM) Link | Quote
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5679		Pentium 200 MMX with Opera 9.64 and Windows 95... quite slow but still usable.

Also have posted from my Macintosh Performa 575 (iCab 2.9.9 and Mac OS 7.6.1) and various emulators (including WinUAE )

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Posted on 03-30-11 02:20:37 AM Link | Quote
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Nintendo DS in DS Linux's retawq and links2 a couple years ago.

That's about it. I don't have any internet-connectible old computers.

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Posted on 03-30-11 04:59:20 AM Link | Quote
Threads like this make me wish I had a VM set up to play around with Windows 3.1 again. I should actually read up on that... probably wouldn't take up that much space, or I could possibly run it in DOSBox, no?

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Posted on 03-30-11 06:13:29 AM Link | Quote
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It works in DOSbox, but DOSbox doesn't have a network device.

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Posted on 03-30-11 08:28:09 PM Link | Quote
IE 3 on Windows 3.1. What PNGs?

I tried IE5, too, and that worked quite a bit better.

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Gabu

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Posted on 03-30-11 10:40:41 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Colin
Threads like this make me wish I had a VM set up to play around with Windows 3.1 again. I should actually read up on that... probably wouldn't take up that much space, or I could possibly run it in DOSBox, no?


I fail at trying to set up Windows 3.1. Particularly the part where DOS has to be installed.

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Posted on 03-30-11 11:21:17 PM Link | Quote
DOSBox already has "DOS", so you'd just install Windows, I believe

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Posted on 03-31-11 04:00:23 AM Link | Quote
It works in DOSbox, but DOSbox doesn't have a network device.

Bah, so it would have to be a VM... Worth a shot.

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Posted on 03-31-11 01:21:02 PM Link | Quote
I installed Windows 3.1 on this really old Gateway laptop once. It was really cool and then it was lame because I couldn't seem to do much.

So then I put Arch Linux on it.

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Posted on 03-31-11 11:37:26 PM (last edited by Bagel at 03-31-11 08:41 PM) Link | Quote
I got an old version of iCab running on a Mac Plus. 4MB RAM, 8MHz Motorola 68000. It crashed (as in the bomb dialog came up saying I was out of memory) after trying to load anything more complicated than a text file or a blank page, though. The thing is already RAM-starved enough by running System 7.1, let alone iCab.

Getting the thing online at all required an external SCSI ethernet card. Just so happens that we had one in the basement. Not even kidding. <_>

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