Surfing the Web with Netscape 4

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While looking into our old SPARC server targets for our new SPARC legacy offering, I  opened up a Simics demo checkpoint that we have had around for a long time (at least eight years). This demo is an UltraSPARC II running Solaris 9, and it shows how web browsers looked around 2001.  I used real-network to connect the machine to the Internet, and tried the default webbrowser – Netscape 4.78, built in June of 2001.

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