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From: "Mark in Clinton TWP.  MI.  USA" <MarWar AT Provide DOT net>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 00:21:08 +0500
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Subject: Re: any new dos?
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But would this be an english version?  I wouldn't think so?
 This also is not for noncommercial use,
     Haven't tried a copy but it sounds interesting, maybe someone else
knows more?

      Mark



On 2001-10-29 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   -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-----
   -> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:43 AM
   -> 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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