From: Alex Roberts <robo AT earthling DOT net>
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Subject: Re: A DJ Web Browser
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:01:55 +0100
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Peter Palotas wrote:
> 
> At 03.47 1997-09-28 +0200, you wrote:
> >> I've got an idea for a new project the people of the mailing list.  Why
> >> doesn't somebody try to create a DOS web browser?  I don't know enough
> >
> >Actually this might be an interesting challenge. Although it might be a
> >waste of time in some way (there're plenty of users who do everything
> >with Windows and don't even know what DOS is) it sounds - well,
> >interesting! :) This browser probably wouldn't find as much users as the
> >Windows-based ones, but there're surely some people who prefer *really*
> >fast programs over sluggish Windows ones (IMHO compared to DOS every
> >Windows program is slow). As far as I'm concerned, I know some people
> >who might be interested in using such a program beside the Windows
> >Browsers. If there're others who would want to develop the ultimate
> >DOS-Browser, I would be interested in being one of the programmers
> >(basically because I badly need help with the networking stuff - never
> >did anything like that before).
> >I'm curious about what the others think...
> 
> Well, we can make it an interesting project, by making it better than
> Netscape (or equally good), since DOS programs CAN be run under windows,
> windows users *could* use it... Right? If it's good enough! ;)
> 

Please may I say something here, there already is a web browser written
with djgpp, it's the Lynx DOS port.

L8r
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