[arachne] Re: dr webspider and arachne

  • From: "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:14:04 +0000

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From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>

> Version 2.01 was released ten years ago in 1998. Caldera
> later abandoned development of all of it's DOS applications in favor
> of Linux.

That is not quite correct. Caldera split itself into Caldera Systems
and Caldera Thinclients, which later was renamed to Lineo. Caldera
Systems was developing OpenLinux whereas Caldera Thinclients/Lineo
continued to develop and sell DR-DOS for quite some time before they
switched to Embedix.

Lineo renamed DR-Webspyder to EmBrowser but continued to develop it
for some time, probably as long as they continued to develop DR-DOS,
perhaps even longer. Later versions of DR-Webspyder/EmBrowser were
not publicly available but only licenced to companies that also
licenced DR-DOS. The last version of DR-DOS that Lineo developed was
reportedly v7.06, so one can only assume that EmBrowser also saw some
development after Lineo had officially discontinued the development of
DR-DOS in favour of Embedix.

Regards,

Udo

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