On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:04:10 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hallo Bastiaan : -
> You wrote on the Arachne page but I have to reply direct as I've a
> little bit of configuring to do before I could send something to the
> list.
I'll forward this to the list.
> I never used MSwindows as part of my system so - without giving up on
> CA-SuperCalc, Arachne and lots of others - I had to try and do Linux and
> in the end have got Netscape (free and in the Debian distro) taking up
> where Polak stopped. Mind you his Arachne for Linux works, but so far
> I got no further than the first proper crash. At present Arachne in
> DOS is so much faster for non-extreme-graphical sites than Netscape can
> be, I think. I haven't been able to pick up why Arachne listers stopped
> at 1.61 and 1.62 but I drive a 32-year-old car; its not much
> encouragement for Polak when he presses forward to 1.70 and to Linux
> but the mailers are all about recursively polishing some old mirror and
> trying to get seeing round corners with it. I'm not technical but I'm
> told its something about 16-bit, 32-bit and maybe 64-bit and in DOS you
> just can't do it if you want to use interactive modern sites on the
> net, these just get worse and worse.
As for MS-win I need to use it for several reasons:
Intenet... HTTPS connections e.g. to my bank
Java Script
Sound card: I cannot use the PCI-slot in DOS (although the monititor is
in a PCI slot and OK on DOS).
There are programs win only
For my work I need the MS Office... Word, Exell, etc
But... I like DOS and there are several programs that can perform in DOS
only and there are some tasks without a good win alternative.
Tried Arachne 1.7 but it crashes... and I don't have enough time to sort
this out.
At this very moment i do not see any reason to invest the little time i
have in another operating system like Linux... 3 OS'es on one computer
and learning how to master them?
No computing is not my hobby... (a bit) but a tool that has to perform.
GL, Bastiaan
> Debian is hard work for me but I prefer it to any of the others, which
> are all too much like Windows for me. There is a mail list, not very
> active but very sane, for radio amateurs.
> Good luck to you,
> Pat Bracken
> --
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 and Postilion v0.9.2 are free software.
> Free as in Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/
-- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
