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Re:I Used Netscape Composer in 2024 by throwaway124219 on Friday April 19, 2024 @06:06AM (#40084952)
At that time, 486 was probably the minimum target they would expect it to run on. Pentiums had also started to become more affordable by 1997.
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Re:I Used Netscape Composer in 2024 by acherion on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:07PM (#40091906)
Sure, it was very ambitious to run something like a 16-bit version of Composer on such a low spec machine, but I still gave it a go :D

This was around 1995. I didn’t suffer too long with Composer on my 386, I got sick of the swapping pretty quickly and stuck with Notepad for a long time afterwards.

I didn’t upgrade my 386 PC until 1998 (couldn’t afford to), when I got a Cyrus 6x86, which is another story altogether. If you know about Quake and FPU performance with the 6x86, then you already know the story.

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Re:I Used Netscape Composer in 2024 by throwaway124219 on Saturday April 20, 2024 @06:13PM (#40101473)
I had a 486 SX2, and not DX2, so I feel your pain regarding math and games...
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