Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:43:17 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: > 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. Yes, I do! But, I have to use IE for some web uses since Arachne can not handle the communications with my bank (security and java script) and other web sites. For email Arachne is great and very secure! And... I like DOS very much. > 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. Running DOS on new machines is limited: eg. no RS232 port but only USB available, no driver for PCMCIA cards, problems with soundcard, etc. Especialy note books suffer from this. > 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. Just boot to a special DOS partition... > 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. Very good proposal to make Arachne fit for modern machines. Regards, Bastiaan > 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 -- ** This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser ** ** Version 1.85 ** Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --