Author: Steve Kirk Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] The end of an era
On Saturday 29 December 2007 13:33:51 Adam Trickett wrote: > On Saturday 29 Dec 2007, Steve Kemp wrote:
> > On Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 13:08:19 +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> > > When you look back the noticeable thing is that they weren't
> > > Microsoft and their stuff worked on Unix.
> >
> > Interestingly in my first programming job, circa 1996, we had a
> > copy of Internet Explorer running on Solaris. I'm sure it was via
> > the mainsoft compatibility layar, rather than a native port but my
> > memory is hazy ..
> >
> > (I definitely started that job in 96, but it might have been a
> > year or two later. Definitely whilst I was still there though!)
>
> Okay, you got me there, IE 4 or 5 was available for Solaris and HP I
> think, but lots of things didn't work (ActiveX) and it didn't last
> very long. There hasn't been a Linux version, and the Mac version is
> long dead and I don't know if it was ever ported to OS X.
I guess it's a moot point these days as it hasn't been updated in years,
by IE was ported to OS X. When I bought my G4 in 2001, in came with OS
9.2.1 as the default OS, with the ability to boot into what was
essentially an incomplete preview version of OS X. I believe that it
was listed as version 10.0 or 10.1. I later bought an "update" CD (I
only had PSTN dial up back then) to move to what I'm pretty sure was
listed as 10.1.5. IE was part of all of these - in fact I'm pretty sure
it was the default browser on them.
Netscape was also available, which I installed almost straight away. I
can't clearly remember Safari being part of any of these releases, but
my memory is hazy too...
