From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 18:53:47 EDT
In article <01BFF256.4A2AC750_at_ntwc0613.int.rdel.co.uk>, you wrote:
>>From personal experience a minimum win95 installation is in the order of
>270Mb. This was for win95 osr2, using fat32 FS. As for the win95 distribution
>ie cab files etc, these are about 70Mb.
Cab files for Win95a are only about 23 MB. Then there are a
bunch of updates you need to install (and store) to get a reasonably
stable system. That's what I use on the 701C (486/75).
>
>I would recommend either an earlier IE version or netscape 4.x as IE5 will
>steal lots of your precious disk space. Not sure about outlook etc.
I have been using Netscape 3.04 ("the last stable version")
except it isn't really all that stable, and there is an
increasingly annoying number of sites which require a higher
number. Fortunately, those are never the crucial sites!
3.04 works quite quickly. My *perceived* surfing speed on
well-designed sites is as good with 3.04, Win95a, 486/75, IBM 33.6
PCMCIA modem is as fast as friends using IE or NE 4.? or 5.?,
Win98, Pentium II, and cable. If there are a lot of images,
yes, they do appear faster.
>I reckon you can do it. I'd certainly give it a go.
I think so, too. And if he wants to have more space, it isn't
hugely expensive.
>>
>> I have a 755CE in excellent shape - 40 meg; 540 meg; external backpack PP
>> CD available. I have a friend who is interested if he can reasonably run
>> W95 on this machine - mail, netscape (and IE) and not a lot else and don't
>> currently have any info on how much space a w95 installation requires.
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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