> No mystery why DN (the RITLabs one) can't run on some newer computers;
>it's written in Turbo Pascal (I think there's a patch for TP6 somewhere on
>the Web, but all I have been able to find until now were broken links...).
What is in Turbo Pascal that screws up on newer computers? I think I heard
about that before on this Arachne list.
> Now for a total change of subject:
> I wonder if there is something new with the Linux development of
>Arachne. I think she may be particularly useful on older machines. My
>computer has only 16 megs of RAM (legacy 72-pin SIMM's). It can't use EDO,
>so there's little hope I'll ever be able to increase its memory size.
>Netscape runs very slow under X-Window, even using a lightweight window-
>manager as Fvwm. Enlightement is barely usable (this prevented me to use
>the ggi versionof Arachne) , so the only options that I've got are Lynx
>and, of course, Arachne-svgalib. I think this I'm not the only one having
>to cope with such "rough environment" ;-). Also I remember that a
>significant leap in increasing the stability of the DOS version, took
>place at the time when the Linux version was released.
Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp 4 crawls for me in Presentation
Manager. I don't know if X Window would be any faster. Newer X Windows would
probably be slow on my Cx486DX2-S at 66 MHz with 20 MB RAM. Only way to get
more RAM would be if you could find it used. I plan to try Linux Netscape.
Steven of NZ reported running Netscape 3.04 with no window manager, then later
with ice (?) window manager.
Does the current or recent Lynx for Linux allow viewing inline and other images
on a separate screen as can be done with DOS Lynx386? There must be an image
viewer for svgalib, I would think.
