Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:19:25 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Wed, 17 May 2006 19:42:28 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: >> This leads to a rather interesting question - what is to be considered >> "standard equipment", and who (or what) is reponsible for maintaining >> compatibility with this standard? > The responsibiity would rest with the manufacturer if they want to > maintain compatability with any particuler standard. It's a free > choice situation. Manufacturers can omit whatever they want and do. > ISA slots were standard before, but new motherboards don't have > them. ISA modems with jumpers used to be "standard" now they are > hard to find and won't fit new motherboards anyway. And so on. > It's certainly a problem for Arachne on new computers. No, it isn't. My current machine is a Pentium4 running at 1.7ghz It has no ISA slots. Modem is an ActionTec PCI 56k NIC card is a LinkSys LNE100TX Both are 100% DOS compatible and work perfectly with Arachne. -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --