Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/28/21:17:08
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
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> That's true. WebSpyder didn't support half the things that MSIE/Netscape
> do. If someone were to create a fully-HTML 3.0 compliant, fast, DOS Web
> Browser, the demand would be incredible.
I haven't tried WebSpyder yet, but it's a modified version of Arachne
(which I've mentioned before). While it's true that Arachne doesn't
support a great many features, it's more than Mosaic or Chimera or Arena
or Amaya or GNUscape. I can't get Arachne to work with my TCP/IP stack
(it's WATTCP/Crynwr based, I have a vendor-supplied packet driver) but it
really does look good:
http://www.naf.cz/arachne/
Also, QNX has this "1.44MB Web Challenge" where they put a stripped-down
copy of QNX (their POSIX-compliant microkernel UNIX), the Proton micro
GUI, the Voyager web browser (based on Spyglass Mosaic, I have yet to see
if it's as good as MSIE/Netscape), PPP stuff, plus a web _server_ on a
single floppy disk. You need a 386, VGA, and at least 6MB of RAM to use it
(the large RAM footprint is for a RAM disk).
http://www.qnx.com/iat/
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