[arachne] Re: dr webspider and arachne
- From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:37:31 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks, Udo. There was so much going on with splits and different
names and business strategies that I had a hard time keeping it all
straight.
I suppose whoever currently holds the rights to WebSpyder might
license the code if someone was interested in it. At one time
there was a SDK license available that included source code. But
that was mostly ten years ago.
I couldn't find any current information except for an online
"web browser museum" that had dozens of different browsers
available for download. Mosaic and so on, and on.
Sam Ewalt
On Tue, December 16, 2008 6:14 pm, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> 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
>
> -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de
>
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