Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 04:55:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: James Fudge cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Caldera licenses Arachne In-Reply-To: <199703152136.QAA01351@adams.berk.net> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, James Fudge wrote: > > From: Dennis Janssen > > Hi, > > > > I just saw this on http://www.naf.cz/arachne/english.htm: > > > > xChaos software is licensing Arachne to Caldera to be used together with > > their OpenDOS operating system! PC users can soon expect brand new Web > > browsing enviroment to be available. > > > > Cewl! > > > > Dennis! > > > > While this is good for the 386+ crowd this is bad for folks with low-end > machines - it will not run on them.. You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you cant.... 286- users can use some port of LYNX or something. Anything graphical would be REALLY INTENSELY SLOW!!!!!! My 386 was really slow running Netscape with 4 megs. I doubt many 286's out there have 4 megs. Mine has 768k. :o) Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | Coming soon: dynamic-IP-freedom... My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca DJGPP: Free 32 bit DOS C compiler.