Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> 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. Yes, but Arachne does not depend on ISA cards - if you have a DSL line, all you need is a networking card with a packet driver, so a machine with only PCI slots would also do. In fact, with a suitable packet driver, one could transmit data over virtually any kind of connection. So lack of ISA slots is not a problem for Arachne unless one tries to connect to the Internet over a legacy connection using a WinModem, at least as long as Ethernet is still available. What else? 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 --