[44381] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: win95 and IEAK6.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Wed Nov 21 16:19:53 2001
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "Bill Larson" <blarson@compu.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:19:24 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Bill Larson
> Sent: November 21, 2001 2:52 PM
> To: Tim Winders
> Cc: isp-tech@isp-tech.com; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: win95 and IEAK6.0
>
> However there is no reason other than trying to force people to =
upgrade to
> the newest Microsoft OS version to write this browser so that it would =
not
> support windows 95 as well. Many of the rural users I deal with have
> machines barely able to run Windows 95, and forget windows 98. =20
> If I tell my
> users they must upgrade their computers to use my service those users =
will
> simply find another internet service.
Are you sure that you would WANT to run IE 6 on these machines? The =
requirements for IE6 seem identical to the requirements for Win98, which =
you can find at =
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/7/51.ASP (someone =
alread posted the requirements for IE6)
I know I've tried IE_5_ on a machine that's barely below these minimum =
requirements on Win95, and... well, let me put it this way: the 14.4 =
modem in that box was no longer the bottleneck. I have trouble believing =
that IE6 (or even IE5) would acceptably on a <P100, and if you have a =
P133+ I would think you can run Win98 just fine if you turn off active =
desktop (and then again, I'm not even sure anyone enables Active Desktop =
even on a 1900+ Athlon XP)
Vivien
P.S. I don't know where you are, but in my general area (Ontario, =
Canada), you can buy refurb P166s capable of running Win98 for about =
$90CDN, or about $60USD (probably less than that, since the exchange =
rate sucks so much these days). Makes me wonder how much my nice 486 is =
worth these days... probably less than a box of donuts!
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/
