Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:29:08 +0100 (MET)
From: Theuzifan <uzi AT simauria DOT upv DOT es>
To: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, J P Morris wrote:

> Petr Mrazek wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Theuzifan wrote:
> > >
> >> And it's really great to have a lot of programs running at the same
> >> time, it's very useful for programmers... if you're using rhide
> >> (or even worse, dos edit) now you don't need to shell to DOS or exit
> >> to read some help or txts. Caldera is working in a graphical Web
> >> browser for DOS!!! So you can read the help in .html format in a
> >> session (you can have up to 25 sessions at a time)
> 
> In reality about 10 sessions can be usefully achieved with the default
> CPU sharing levels and a PII processor.
I've opened 20 sessions, with a 486 dx4/120.

> 
> On some systems the multitasker can be a little unstable, but
> in most cases it works really well.
> 
> >>
> > 
> > Graphical Web browser for DOS already exists! It's Arachne writed by
> > mr. Polak from Czech republic (I haven't any URL here, but try to
> > search on www.seznam.cz).
> 
> Arachne is at http://www.naf.cz/arachne
> 
> But:
> 
> (Shameless plug for webspydr)
> 
> Caldera Webspydr is based on Arachne Source code.
> Made to run in protected mode, and with most of Arachne's bugs fixed.
> It runs under Allegro, so any videomode should work.
> Arachne uses 'fake-frames' , but True frames are being worked upon for
> Webspyder.  Smooth Scrolling will also be implemented soon.
> Later releases will support Java and Javascript.
> 
> > 
> >>
> >> Theuzifan Sumachingun
> >> Tema de refexion de la semana:
> >> - Por que?
> >>
> > 
> > Petr Mrazek
> 
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