From:	Matthew Mastracci <mmastrac AT acs DOT ucalgary DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: A DJ Web Browser
Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:26:40 -0600
Organization:	The University of Calgary
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Sascha Imme wrote:

> > Actually, Caldera released a DOS web browser called "Web Spyder", which
> > was completely freeware.  It worked great, but it was horribly slow on my
> 
> I'm sure that there're already some DOS browsers (which are freeware,
> too), but from what I've read here so far it seems that some people
> still wait for any real alternative to Netscape or MSIE. When I think
> about how Linux and especially DJGPP were made, I'm rather optimistic
> that such a project as a Web-Browser would be possible as well. Maybe
> this thread is the beginning of a new era... :)

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. 

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