Message-Id: <3.0.16.19910201104208.2aff781c@tellus.swip.net>
X-Sender: mt58779 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: RE: 32 bit Arachne (was DOS and WIN/98) (OT)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:46:35 +0100
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Joe wrote:
>WRT, 32 bit Arachne, it is clear to me that Michael wants to
>continue supporting 8088, 8086, 80186 and 80286 CPU's, for
>hand-held and embedded applications. He even has thoughts
>of porting Arachne to 8-bit platforms, such as the RISC Z80
>derivatives, that have been released fairly recently. This is the
>real reason, I believe, that Michael has not ported Arachne
>to "32 bit" (except, I guess, the Linux versions) ...

I think Michael is doing the wrong thing here. He may be able to sell
Arachne for use with set-up boxes (for digital TV) but if so he needs a
faster (not to mention more stable) product. By not putting any effort into
32-bit he will not be able to get the most out of such machines.
I know that he thinks that WML (aka. WAP) is useless and that he therefor
thinks he can sell to mobile phone companys as well, but some PDAs have CPU
power well over 200MHz so they would also benefit? Besides I haven't heard
from Nokia or Ericsson that they are going to drop WML support (although I
really don't know it all that well since I work at the department at
Ericsson that sends the data for the phone calls - I'm making the last
piece of the puzzle to sending signals over IP actually).
Anyway, this is far too OT for this list so I'll not bother anyone else
more with this now - I hope I didn't take up too much of your time ;-)
//Bernie