Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 22:29:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Jon Visick <visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu>
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Arachne
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James Fudge writes:

> Let me just say this, yes it was one of a few good choices. but there are
> other web browsers out there for DOS and arachne was not the best choice.
> there's nettamer, bobcat, lynx etc..

	Given the tremendous amount of graphical content on Web sites 
today (excessive, IMHO, but unlikely to change), I think Caldera was wise 
to license what is clearly the best *graphical* browser for DOS at 
present.  In terms of Internet tools, their competition is the 
ever-more-graphics-and-Java-heavy Netscape, and people who ooh and aah 
over Netscape aren't going to be too thrilled by Lynx.

	Of course, Arachne has its problems:  memory usage, cache
management and forms support are among them.  But all the above-named
programs have drawbacks.  Hopefully Caldera's support will allow it to
continue to evolve rapidly.  And hopefully the other 
developers will keep working on their products, as well...just because 
Arachne may be packaged with OpenDOS certainly doesn't limit our ability 
to choos another DOS-based browser.

Jon Visick
visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu