from Clarence Verge:
>Probably no to both, but strength is relative and there are lots of delays
>on death row. ;-)
It costs less to lock up a murderer for life without parole than to prosecute
the death penalty!
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Why would any reasonable person fill their computer with stuff they don't
need just because it's cheap ? I'm setting up a new business requiring
four new computers for the engineering department. Are we buying 1.2 Ghz
boxes with 256Mb ram ? No way. 600-800Mhz PIIIs with 128M and that's both
more speed and more memory than we will ever need.
It's not the cost, it's the value.
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Now 256 MB RAM can be had for $90 US. It's not what we need now, but what we
will need in the near (?) future. Star Office is a RAM hog (understatement)!
What OS are you running, and what kind of applications? Surely not MS-DOS 3.3?!
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>Why put up with Arachne's clumsy scrolling and other comical flaws?
Mostly because we like Arachne. <G> And for me, it gets the job done in
a more pleasant manner than anything I have ever seen anywhere.
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Even on a relatively simple but long page like
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ky/climate.html
vertical scrolling with Arachne is slow and clumsy. Or substitute your state
(2 letter abbreviation) for ky; this is for the USA, and other people who want
US weather reports.
IBM Web Explorer for OS/2, for all its inadequacies serious enough that IBM gave
up on Web Explorer in favor of Netscape, did vertical scrolling rather well.
Web Explorer didn't support frames (just red X's and no links to frame content);
no Java or Javascript, no https, no support for redirection. IBM Web Explorer
was unable to resolve URLs such as http://come.to/catfish.land. But downloading
without viewing was a strong point, user could select and deselect Save to Disk
mode from a menu.
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> Lynx has the advantage of being open-source, ported to many Unixes and some
> non-Unixes too. Newer versions show all images, including inline, as links,
> downloadable or viewable on separate screen. How many people are working on
> Arachne? Lynx is useful on those super-image-laden Web sites that are just
> too slow in a graphic browser.
I like Lynx a lot and if I never wanted to see a picture I would certainly
use it. But that's not what most of us want or need. I'm not familiar with
the new Lynxes you speak of.
Perhaps the PERFECT software would be Lynx-like speed and Kevlar coating
with Arachne's graphic capability.
- Clarence Verge
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DOS users are not left out!
Try http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/
Anybody know what's happening on Linux Arachne?
