Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Udo Kuhnt's suggestion that Arachne be split into two footprints seems to me to be the optimal solution. Speaking as one who has several legacy desktops and laptops along with several "modern" desktops and laptops, but especially speaking as one who loves Arachne and DOS (almost) more than life itself, I say _YES_ to Udo Kuhnt's two track proposed solution. LONG LIVE ARACHNE IN ANY AND ALL FOOTPRINTS. Best regards, J.T. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [arachne] The future of Arachne > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:43:17 +0000 > > > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > Hi all! > > I always thought that most of the people who are using Arachne do this > because just like me, they like DOS and prefer it over other OSes. I > thought that just like me, they were accepting the constraints of > Arachne since they feel that it is better than using a different OS just > to be able to use Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, whatever. > > Now I have learned that most of the people on this list seem to regard > Arachne as something they toy with because they are bored, or use on old > machines they are running DOS on because these are not suitable for > running Windows NT, etc. > > There are also those who apparently do not want Arachne to become more > powerful and suitable for running on modern PCs because they are afraid > that it will no longer run on their legacy machines, while at the same > time they are using other browsers on other OSes on more powerful > machines they would never want to waste on DOS and Arachne. > > So here is my proposal: > > Instead of keeping Arachne small enough to run on old machines with > little memory just to please those who are not really interested in it > because they do not run it on their main machines and thus do not depend > on it, let's split Arachne into two versions, one for legacy machines > and one for modern ones. > > The "modern" version should be developed to make optimal use of the > resources of the PC, while the "legacy" version should be optimised for > speed and a small memory footprint. If a new feature is to be added to > Arachne that would use too much memory for the "legacy" version or make > it too slow to run on old PCs, it should only be added to the "modern" > version. > > I know that this proposal will probably be unpopular with those who are > only running Arachne on their old PCs because they will feel that they > will be left behind, but since they could choose to run Arachne on their > modern machines anytime, either in DOS or in an emulator, this seems to > be negligible. > > Regards, > > 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 -- > -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --