New life for old PCs

[Brian High]

I downloaded and tried this.  Nice product.  Kind a cross
between Win95 (taskbar, etc.), Win31 (other stylistic stuff), 
and Mac (some icons).  Fits on 4 floppies.  Fast.  Only
needs old version of DOS.

Has anyone tried the web browser?

--Brian

Albert Boss wrote:
> 
> NEW LIFE FOR OLD PCS
> New software provides Internet access to old, pre-Internet PCs.
> NewDeal has announced the release of the NewDeal Web Suite,
> which provides Internet access, e-mail, and chat capabilities to
> any system with at least 10MB of hard disk space and 640K of
> memory.  The software features a Web browser and advanced
> functions such as instant chat and Web page editing.  The
> software caters to the 30 million to 60 million pre-Pentium
> machines still in use, even those based on Intel 80286 CPUs that
> cannot run the latest versions of Windows.  NewDeal's files can
> be accessed by Windows applications, and the software can read
> files saved by Windows programs.  NewDeal is mainly targeting
> organizations with limited resources, such as schools and
> nonprofit groups.  (PC World Online 07/07/99)
> 
> Excerpt from Edupage, 12 July 1999
> News abstracts Copyright 1999, Information Inc., Bethesda, MD
> Edupage Copyright 1999, EDUCAUSE
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