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Re: Netscape-3.01

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jan 27 11:23:11 1999

To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: gisele@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:20:50 EST."
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:22:57 EST
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

>Bottom line is that I need to know:
>
>1. which open Unix platforms are in widespread use around MIT. We can't
>support everything, but we can get the most common ones.

Solaris, IRIX, Linux, and NetBSD.

>2. What versions of Netscape will comfortably run on those platforms.
>
>I am trying to phase out old Netscapes and old platforms, simply so that
>we don't have to maintain everything on infoagents forever and ever. I
>would probably have asked you for this sort of information soon anyway, in
>conjunction with that.

Nobody cares about netscape 2.x.
Some people like Netscape 4.x.
Many people detest 4.x and use 3.x

So 3.x and 4.x should each work on those platforms.

--jhawk

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