Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >>> Well, unless you want Arachne to be a web browser for machines of the >>> last millennium only, you'd better get used to people using high-powered >>> ones. :-) >> What's the point of running DOS and Arachne on a high-powered >> computer? I'd like to know what you think. Why not just use something >> that is fully capable already? There is little hope that Arachne >> will ever make up it's current limitations. > There is a point in running DOS and Arachne: in every day practice one > will not catch a virus, worm or other nasty animals. > This concerns especialy the e-mail handling in DOS. > There is no special point in using a high powered modern machine but > sooner or later you have to use a modern machine, just because your 20th > century model became beyond repair. > New users will use new modern machines... and WE have to tell them how > to install DOS on those new machines and how to get DOS running. > Where to get drivers for modems, printers, USB, PCMCIA, fire wire or > whatever auxilary will be invented or added to our computers? > How to live without serial (RS232) or parallel (PRN) ports? > Can we cope??? > Regards, Bastiaan Thank you, Bastiaan; that was about the best comment on this subject that I have read so far. 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 --