On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Dave Ratti wrote: > http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/news-20000124-10.html Yes. Dave have sent me a note. But I think he exagerates impact of Arachne. I wrote him the reasons: 1) Arachne is not optimized enough. Look at those 4 KB and 64 KB intros and demos. They are really unbelievable. Pure ASM code. Sound and visual effects. Really usable browser for DOS should have been written in ASM like these demos :-( I am ready to cooperate with ASM wizards on writing really super-optimized web browser. I have learnt lot of HTML rendering tricks which can help them - but I need my algorithms to be rewritten in ASM, preferably 386 ASM which would directly address memory above 1 MB. 2) Arachne failed to "recycle" old 386 and 486 machines all over the world. Computer industry dropped the prices of new PCs, thanks to many Pentium clones (AMD and Cyrix). So there were only few people who really felt the need for DOS web browser... I don't like Windows even on Pentium II or III, but I must admit that they are usable. Arachne was written because Windows were not usable on 386s... -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux)
