Processor speed of 100 MHz or higher and RAM 32 MB or higher are recommended. Applets require a browser with capabilities to handle advanced JAVA TM code and are best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer , version 4.0 or higher. Versions 5.0 and higher of Internet Explorer are highly recommended since they have a nearly perfect implementation of JAVA TM which corrects several minor glitches found in earlier versions.
Execution is also very fast.
Follow instructions on the screen to complete installation. The new version 6.0 of Netscape Navigator TM , released in November 2000, has now available Java 2.0 as a download option. The applets available through this Web page are compliant with Java 1.1 and Java 2.0 and will work perfectly with version 6.0. However, the JAVA TM Virtual Machine included with Netscape Navigator TM , up to the last release before 6.0, is quite slower and it does not always behave correctly when threads are used, as in some of the more advanced applets. Recent versions of Netscape Navigator TM , beginning with version 4.51, actually appear to behave even worse, in terms of Java handling capabilities.