From: "Eko Priono" <epr AT earthdome DOT com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:25:18 +0700 (JAVT)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: (null) A.K.A. DOS Navigator
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On Mon, 20 Apr 98 20:36:19, "tucker" <tucker AT together DOT net> wrote:

> A dos version of navigator would be a very welcome product in
> my opinion.  Along the same lines, I'd really like to see a
> decent POP3 e-mail client for DOS (yes, I've played with
> nettamer).

As a DOS graphical browser, currently Arachne would be the
closest one in functionality to Navigator.  It's still run in
real mode, and -- albeit slowly -- runnable even on a XT (I've
played with Arachne and Nettamer 386 on my old AT 286).

Arachne original design was bought by Caldera and developed
separately as Webspyder under DOS/4G environment.  There are
also other DOS-based graphical web browser available or under
development: IBM Webboy, Spin, Ullyses, and NetApex.  The list
probably would be growing longer after Netscape releasing it's
source code.

However, as far as I know, all of the current DOS browsers
doesn't support Java and won't multitask either.  So, probably
a DOS version of Navigator would be feasible.  But, as Windows
applications dominate the market, and DOS applications tends
to end up at niche market, perhaps the development would be
strictly a voluntary effort.

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