[G4] New to this list

[John Baltutis]

On 11/29/05, Sy <sytech at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have a Mac G4  (400 mhz. running System 9.1) with
> AGP Graphics . I have 576 MB of RAM
>
> I've been looking for a list which addresses pre-OSX
> issues and I hope this is the one.
>
> The main reason I haven't upgraded to OSX is that I am
> running old versions of Microsoft Works, Quicken etc..
> and they work just fine on my system 9.1. The browsers
> I use are Netscape Communicator 4.79 for email as well
> as IE 5.1 and sometimes Mozilla 1.3.1. and they do the
> job.
>
> I was wondering how many people there are out there
> who are still using pre-OSX systems and would like to
> here from them.  I really would like to stay with OS9
> because it works for me but I am noticing that some
> web sites (like ORBITZ) are requiring browsers which
> require OSX software to work.
>
> Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

IMHO, you should update to 9.2.2 and NS 4.8. Get the 9.2.2 update at
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75288> and the Netscape 4.8
update at <http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive47x.jsp >. Much
better performance on the G4 than 9.1 and NS 4.79. Also, as others have
stated, most OS 9 apps work via OS X's Classic, but in your case you can
have both a bootable OS 9 and a bootable OS X installation on your machine,
which allows you to experiment w/OS X, while retaining the ability to do
things exactly as you do now.