Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:36:53 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:33:05 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: >> Yes, but a fully featured DOS would also need a fully featured web >> browser, wouldn't it? :-) > Yes, indeed! Which is why I don't understand why there isn't more > interest in the DOS development community in Arachne development. > There seem to be all sorts of other ongoing DOS projects with > talented, creative programmers. <snip> > But what are these DOS developers going to use for a browser on their > modern machines? Well we know the answer to that already. For browsing > they don't use DOS, at least not very much. It is almost like the vintage car fraternity. They love their vintage cars, they love driving them, but for day-to-day use they fall back on their modern cars with auto trans, a/c and cruise control. Doesn't it strike you that some of these DOS developers are only doing it for the fun, and have no intention that DOS should ever become their operating system of choice? > I'm all in favor of anything that will attract more developers to > Arachne. Oh, yes, indeed! . ,-./\ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia . / \ "Queen City of The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E . \_,-*_/ . v homepage http://users.tpg.com.au/gmone/index.htm Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --