Excerpt from "Witold Filipczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >You could run of course Arachne for DOS in xdos, but xdos is slow. >But you could run Archne under dosemu on console. >Directly using modem in dosemu is very slow, at least on my machine, >but there is something like dosnet (vnet).
I remember running Arachne and other DOS Internet programs in an OS/2 Warp 4 VDM, and the modem was about 40% to 50% as fast as in straight DOS. In either case it was a 56K modem running at COM port speed 115200. So Arachne crawled as she chugged away on the disk. Lynx386 was also much slower in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM than in regular DOS. There was nothing comparable to dosnet, though there was a \TCPIP\DOS\BIN\COMTCP.EXE in OS/2 Warp 4 package that allowed running the X_* mail and news programs of UKA_PPP but not any other DOS Internet programs. With Arachne, Lynx386, etc, I had to dial from the VDM, then these programs ran as in straight DOS but slower.
