Re: Netscape for M68K?

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:08:33PM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> > >  I'd agree with you. I have an older Mozilla milestone (should better
> > >  be called millstone ...) binary running on my 3000/040 under Linux,
> > >  and it's hardly usable. At least not with 22MB physical ...
> > 
> > The really old one I had needed 70 seconds to start up on a 112 MByte 
> > memory,
> > 50 MHz Motorola 68060 machine. After that, it was pretty usable. But I've
> > built it nearly one year ago; nowadays I'd need a MO full of sources just 
> > to build it, as far as I have heard. I won't try.
> 
> If Mozilla under Unix is too slow, what about Basilisk, MacOS, and
> Netscape 4.08? Has anyone tried to run it on their NetBSD machine?

I forgot to mention earlier: netscape communicator 4.7x in navigator mode, under
Solaris 2.6 on a 300 MHz UltraSparc, needs about 12 seconds to start up.

About what you would expect from a full minute on a (presumably)
slower architcture cpu clocked at 1/5th of the clock rate.

        -is