[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #142

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:00:05 +0000, Gregory Parks wrote:

>> Sheesh! What a mob of wankers!!!

> Well,,, everybody needs a hobby!

Yeah <G>


> on a serious note, I've been following your adventures and they're quite
> intresting. I started out with msdos 6.2? and switched to Drdos 7.03
> on a 486 66,( 8 meg of ram) using a 28.8 external modem; didn't notice
> an Inet performance difference. In a couple of weeks I'm off work for a
> week and will be doing some comparison downloading,,,, have 286 to
> pentium 75 boards + an odd assortment of parts just laying around
> will let you know what I find out

Thanks, Greg.

I am becoming convinced that my problems _may_ be related to some
hardware peculiarity in my system.

It has been suggested that the problem is the 8250/16450 UART in my
serial port. But why should this affect only the HTML downloads? And why
only with OpenDOS and not MS-DOS?

As has been said many many times, there is never only one cause for a
problem. It is always a combination of factors.

So maybe my UART is below par. But since the problem only occurs with
OpenDOS+Arachne+HTML pages, there must be other weaknesses in both
Arachne and OpenDOS that play up with the HTML pages.

I would be most pleased to hear that someone is looking into this, so
future users don't have the same trouble that I have had.

> have fun,

I will. And you enjoy your break.

Greg M.


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