Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! From: "Ray Andrews" <randrews@xxxxxxxxx> > Well which point are you tring to make? Earlier it seemed you were > defending CGA and EGA as still needing support, now it seems you are > dismissing older hardware as irrelevant. I'm not understanding you. Obviously. I said that people might regard a 486 too valuable to waste it on Arachne, but for older systems, it might be a viable alternative to throwing it away. >>> for 486 and better (which it does). My distro needs 486, SVGA and >>> XMS. >> And you do not even support standard VGA anymore? Well, at least you >> will know why people won't use your core. > Udo, I didn't say that. What I said was that I could never get it to > work on any of my machines, I think VGA16 is broken. Can't remember your own words? No problem, I have included the relevant part of your previous mail in which you clearly said that your distro needs SVGA and a 486. If it needs SVGA, it obviously does not work with standard VGA, q.e.d. > I don't know, some guys have big TSRs and drivers, so their free mem > is limited. Some guys? Is this more or less than 0.01%? So I presume it is okay if some guys have to buy new graphics cards, but demanding that they unload that "big TSRs" is asking too much? > It's about free memory, speed and most important, about simplifying things > so that a port is easier to achieve. Ah, so limiting the choice of hardware means "simplifying things" to you. Sounds like what Microsoft does with Windows, telling people that they have to replace their hardware when they upgrade to the latest version. > But, since you will never use my core, and probably very few people > ever will, why are you so upset about this? If anyone likes my work > they can use it, if they don't like it they can ignore it. You talk > as if what I'm doing has some effect on you. Please, if you don't > like my attitude just ignore me. > Let's just agree to disagree, you think CGA is important for Arachne > and I don't. I think 100K more low mem if useful and you don't. > That's cool. Everyone makes his own choice. Well said. Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --