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|Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below
 
|Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below
|It is normal to specify browser and minimum version, as all later versions typically retain needed features from previous versions. Instead, the footnote claims that older versions are better (perhaps due to [[1172: Workflow|reliance on a bug]] fixed after version 4.0). No version of Netscape Navigator is maintained.
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|<nowiki>It is normal to specify browser and minimum version, as all later versions typically retain needed features from previous versions. Instead, the footnote claims that older versions are better (perhaps due to [[1172: Workflow|reliance on a bug]] fixed after version 4.0). No version of Netscape Navigator is maintained.</nowiki>
 
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|on a Pentium 3±1
 
|on a Pentium 3±1
|{{w|Pentium}} was a brand of processors made by Intel. Instead of specifying a minimum processor generation (as in software system requirements), both a minimum and maximum are given. This notation is often used for specifying tolerances, usually of a physical property (e.g. electrical resistance) - a tolerance range of "Pentium 3, plus or minus one" indicates anything older than Pentium 2 or newer than Pentium 4 is sub-optimal. It may also refer to the more mathematical usage of plus or minus, which would indicate it's best viewed on a Pentium 2, or a Pentium 4, but nothing else.
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|<nowiki>{{w|Pentium}} was a brand of processors made by Intel. Instead of specifying a minimum processor generation (as in software system requirements), both a minimum and maximum are given. This notation is often used for specifying tolerances, usually of a physical property (e.g. electrical resistance) - a tolerance range of "Pentium 3, plus or minus one" indicates anything older than Pentium 2 or newer than Pentium 4 is sub-optimal. It may also refer to the more mathematical usage of plus or minus, which would indicate it's best viewed on a Pentium 2, or a Pentium 4, but nothing else.</nowiki>
 
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|emulated in Javascript
 
|emulated in Javascript
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|on an Apple IIGS
 
|on an Apple IIGS
|The Apple IIGS was a computer made in the 1980's. Even the slowest Pentium computers are hundreds of times faster than the Apple IIGS. Combined with the inefficiencies of processor emulation, this would result in a painfully slow experience, if it worked at all. It was made before Internet connections were common, and there was probably no web JavaScript-compatible browser for it, if any browser at all. There are now Ethernet cards available for the IIGS.
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|The Apple IIGS was a computer made in the 1980's. Even the slowest Pentium computers are hundreds of times faster than the Apple IIGS. Combined with the inefficiencies of processor emulation, this would result in a painfully slow experience, if it worked at all.
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The Apple IIGS was made before Internet connections were common, and there was probably no web Javascript-compatible browser for it, if any browser at all. There are now Ethernet cards available for the IIGS.
 
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|at a screen resolution of 1024x1.
 
|at a screen resolution of 1024x1.

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