Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/14/06:41:07
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, J P Morris wrote:
> Petr Mrazek wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Theuzifan wrote:
> > >
> >> And it's really great to have a lot of programs running at the same
> >> time, it's very useful for programmers... if you're using rhide
> >> (or even worse, dos edit) now you don't need to shell to DOS or exit
> >> to read some help or txts. Caldera is working in a graphical Web
> >> browser for DOS!!! So you can read the help in .html format in a
> >> session (you can have up to 25 sessions at a time)
>
> In reality about 10 sessions can be usefully achieved with the default
> CPU sharing levels and a PII processor.
I've opened 20 sessions, with a 486 dx4/120.
>
> On some systems the multitasker can be a little unstable, but
> in most cases it works really well.
>
> >>
> >
> > Graphical Web browser for DOS already exists! It's Arachne writed by
> > mr. Polak from Czech republic (I haven't any URL here, but try to
> > search on www.seznam.cz).
>
> Arachne is at http://www.naf.cz/arachne
>
> But:
>
> (Shameless plug for webspydr)
>
> Caldera Webspydr is based on Arachne Source code.
> Made to run in protected mode, and with most of Arachne's bugs fixed.
> It runs under Allegro, so any videomode should work.
> Arachne uses 'fake-frames' , but True frames are being worked upon for
> Webspyder. Smooth Scrolling will also be implemented soon.
> Later releases will support Java and Javascript.
>
> >
> >>
> >> Theuzifan Sumachingun
> >> Tema de refexion de la semana:
> >> - Por que?
> >>
> >
> > Petr Mrazek
>
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