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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: any new dos?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:16:32 +1100
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If you know anyone in Japan, WebBoy V4 is a DOS browser
with Javascript, by IBM Japan. Supposed to be quite good,
but it's commercial software, so I've never seen a real version
to play with (the demo version is web-less). Web page for this
stuff is "http://www-6.ibm.com/jp/pspjinfo/webboy/index.html".
It seems to be a current product, whereas DR-Webspyder
isn't and "2.1b2" was *very* unstable anyway, at least for me.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul O. Bartlett [SMTP:bartlett AT smart DOT net]
> Sent:	Monday, October 29, 2001 9:43 AM
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: any new dos?
> 
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Florian Xaver wrote:
> 
> > You think very positive :-) I am not ....
> > DOS isn't really useable for home user.
> > I bougth a new PC, and have many troubles with DOS. So there are much to
> do.
> 
>     I disagree about DOS not being suitable for a home user.  For the
> most part I was satisfied with MS-DOS 5, NDOS, and 5MB RAM at home
> except for the lack of a graphical browser with Javascript support.  If
> there is such a beast for DOS, I have not heard of it and would be
> interested to learn of it.  Generally I am happy with a text-based,
> command-line interface and am more interested in substance than the
> flash and glitter -- and piggishness -- of Windows.  Finally I gave in
> a bought a new computer with much more horsepower and Windows 98
> installed on it.  I did partition the HDD and put DR-DOS 7.03 on one of
> the partitions, but when I could not get my old DOS version of Procomm
> Plus v2 installed, I sort of let it slide.  Given an adequate browser
> (and an acceptable terminal program, as I dial into a Linux system for
> mail/ng), most of my needs at home could be met with DOS.  But I admit
> that there is probably not a lot of new application developement going
> on any more.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Bartlett
> bartlett AT smart DOT net
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