-----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. 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! -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/