From: phreadd AT powerup DOT com DOT au (David Orme)
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Subject: Re: A DJ Web Browser
Date: 1 Oct 1997 03:45:57 GMT
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In article <342E482E DOT 7795B653 AT uni-bremen DOT de>, imme AT uni-bremen DOT de says...
>
>> 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... :)
>

I hope so. I'd like to see, and even be part of, a DOS based WWW browser.

Not only would the graphics be better, but the overhead of accessing through 
the windows software interface wouldn't exist. Rather than having to ask 
windows if we can access the modem or screen, we can just do it. The only 
bottleneck that I can see is the server delays.

Let's see this project lift-off!

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