David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > I switched to the latest Internet Explorer some months ago, and haven't had
> > a crash with it since!
> 
> Second that.  It's very hard to crash IE.  Often, even bad plugins that
> result in a system crash under Netscape just make IE unexpectedly quit. 
> Maybe Netscape's upcoming source release will convince MS to release
> *their* sources... yeah, right.  Anybody know if there's any truth to the
> rumour of an IE port to some unix platforms? I vaguely remember reading
> something about that possibility on one of the MkLinux/linux-pmac lists
> back before Netscape released a ppc linux port. Anybody?

Yes, it's been ported to Solaris, at least, and apparently it's quite slow
and quite memory intensive.  I don't remember if the Irix port was
finished or not, and there were a couple of others planned as well, I
think.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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