Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:43:17 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: > 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. That sounds like me. > 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. "...most of the people on this list..."? I wonder. > 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. Yes, that sounds like an excellent idea! > 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. That's logical. If we want a poll of users on this, put me down as supporting it. . ,-./\ 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 --