On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Somebody will have to do a comparison with New Deal, Arachne and other DOS
> Internet programs. DOS Lynx 386 can browse the WWW and display graphics,
> including inline, on a separate screen when used with a graphics viewer like
> PICTVIEW, but won't run on a 286. I think Bobcat has some facility for viewing
Does anybody know anything about SPIN? Supposedly another graphic browser
for DOS, but I don't know how far development got, or if it's ongoing.
New Deal would be much easier to install and use for the average,
semi-naive user than any variant of Unix/Linux. The current evaluation
download includes the word processor/DTP stuff and the browser and email
client with what most people need to connect. I don't know if it includes
the ability to do manual logins or CHAP.
Developement with NewDeal is continuing.
The New Deal suite costs $69.95, so with a cheap used system you could
have a really good word processor/DTP, data base, spread sheet,
office suite with email and simple web browser that would be easy to
install and use by the average person for under two hundred bucks.
Not bad, especially since the whole thing is integrated and consistent
across all the applications.
But Arachne is much more advanced, I'm sure. The New Deal browser doesn't
support cookies, for instance.
I'm going to check it out though.
Sam Ewalt
