[arachne] Google crashes Arachne 1.9

I've got Arachne 1.9 up and running now on a museum piece (486DX2-66, 16 MB).  
After Blair Campbell and Eric Auer from the FreeDOS project told me that 
Arachne has TCP/IP built in, my next problem was to figure out why TCP/IP would 
not initialize under DHCP/BOOTP (or why under a static setup Arachne would fail 
to connect).  It turns out that this problem was likely due to the packet 
driver Arachne installed for a generic network card with a Winbond chip.  I put 
aside the Winbond card, installed and configured a 3Com card and their packet 
driver, and Arachne loaded right up.

In testing so far, Arachne successfully handles its home page at arachne.cz, 
pages linked to that site, yahoo.com, an image-laden page at 
southbendtribune.com, and others.  But the seemingly simple and sparse page at 
google.com locks up arachne and causes a system halt with messages like:
    dos mem corrupt, first_mcb=0267
    PANIC: before 4a: MCB chain corrupted
    System halted

Anyone know what's at issue here?

--John Hupp

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