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I have used Internet Explorer 4 on Solaris 2.6 for SPARC. I don’t remember why…

The MIT Athena computer labs while I was there were 80% SPARC and 20% SGI. Despite whatever porting frameworks Microsoft had to glom on, IE for Solaris was still better than the pig Netscape was at that point.

The late 90's and early 2000's were a dark time for browsers. IE was basically the only game in town. Netscape was approaching unusable. I remember it having massive memory leaks and segfaulting every half hour or so on Solaris. Firefox wasn't out yet. Chrome was 5+ years away.

I remember this on Solaris 7! I thought it was the cutting edge of desktop computing

not only IE, but even NetMeeting, which in the late 1990s was the pinnacle of cool Microsoft. conferencing! Screen sharing! Chat!

Ostensibly based on the H323 standard, the OEM that supplied the stacks to Microsoft also rolled their own versions for Solaris, IRIX, and HPUX.

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