Contiki OS itself would be crap compared to System 6, but the web browser beats anything that's currently available (ie: it actually works).

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I dunno...preemptive multithreading (Contiki) vs cooperative multitasking (Sys 6)...depending on what you're trying to do, Contiki might be the better performer. Now the browser, unless it's evolved past the point where scrolling required a page reload, I don't think I'd want to be using it extensively. It would be amusing to port it to check it out and test with, but nothing I'd use as a regular browser, unlike Links/Lynx which are quite functional in that sense.

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Because no System 6 browser exists (I'm treating Samba as more of a stunt), the issue isn't really whether the putative NewBrowser would be worth using regularly. Rather than comparing it to modern browsers that operate on much more capable machines, we're comparing it to...nothing. And compared to nothing, something is pretty damn nice. It would be helpful to be able to download System 6 software on a System 6 Mac. Among others, it would permit us to bypass the "How do I get software onto an 800K floppy?" problem that often crops up when using a more modern computer.

And there's also the "we want to do it because we think we can" geektosterone spirit that ultimately motivates many of us here.