Sam E wrote:
> Even $400 US now gets you a Pentium II, 300 with all the toys if
> you buy used. I'm starting to feel silly with my 386 and the frustration
> of curtailed surfing with Arachne and my ten year old computer.
I bought a new Duron 750 for 550USD not long ago so I think you have a way
to high price on that used machine.
> #3. Sites won't work because Arachne doesn't yet support Javascript or
> CSS or SHTML or 128 bit encryption or something else that I don't
> understand and really shouldn't have to if all I want to do is
> find out how to get tickets to Ozzfest or need information about
> a low cholesterol margarine or some other routine chore that I want
> to use the Internet for.
Actually Arachne is the *only* browser that supports SHTML (through
shtml.apm) however (and this is important!) the browser NEVER parses SHTML
files that are sent from a server. So all browsers support SHTML generated
HTML pages, but only Arachne (AFAIK anyway) support SHTML pages on your
own HD.
> Now it may be that trying to surf today's web on a 386 is a recipe
> for frustration. With the lower cost of better hardware, it really
> is time to upgrade.
All you who sit on 386's should have been able to upgrade to
(atleast) 486's for several years for the low cost of 0 USD (or perhaps
10 at the most). Pentium IIs are old things that people probably are
starting to throw away now... (yeah I know it's weird but take advantage
of it). You should be able to easily pick up used Pentiums for almost
nothing, and pay some low fee for those "slow" machines.
> But will that help with the red squares or the forms? Would Arachne
> be more useable on a Pentium with more memory? Most likely, yes.
It would be faster yes, but it wouldn't help you if you've already got
some "decent" ammount of memory (8+). A friend is planning to buy some
more RAM for his machine, and I said: "640MB should be enough for everyone"
(Yes 640MB - that would be his new ammount, Windows was accessing the
swap too often with his current 384MB <BG>).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/
