What You Need to Get a Browser

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Browsers tuck easily inside most computers. As the Web sites add more images, sound, video and animation, though, you need a muscle machine with a faster processor and more RAM (Random Access Memory) to keep up with the Web crowd.

If you think creatively, you can still use the Web without a Godzilla machine and a rocket-fast Internet connection. The most bare-bones system can use the Web with a shell account and a character-based browser. It might not be like zipping through pages at warp speed, but it can be done. For the current versions of Web browsers, here are the basics that you need.

Minimum Hardware Requirements for Each Browser:



Netscape Navigator 3.0

• 386 CPU Processor
• 3 MB of Hard Drive Disk Space
• 8 MB of RAM

Internet Explorer 3.0 and 3.1

• 386 CPU Processor
• 3 MB of Hard Drive Disk Space
• 4 MB of RAM

NCSA Mosaic 2.1.1

• 80386SX-based machine
• 3 MB of Hard Drive Disk Space
• 4 MB of RAM