On Sun, 3 Feb 2002,

...................Clarence Verge wrote:

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>> No. To execute a standalone .EXE, Arachne needs a task-swapping, and also a
>> temporarily file written.

> Not so. In some cases it DOES do that, but it doesn't HAVE to.

.......and............wrote:

>> think we need: a JavaScript masquerade engine which can easily be developed
>> into a real JavaScript 1.1 support.

>> So, JS engine COMPLETELY independent from browser is UNREAL.

> Too bad you feel that way. There is probably some confusion about what is
> meant by independence here.  Did you know that Arachne regularly launches
> executeables via the DOS exec function ? - thereby staying in memory -
> and these simply terminate when done thus allowing Arachne to continue
> where she left off ?

> We should talk about this elsewhere if you haven't given up completely.

no..!!...no..!!...let's not give up, yet...<g g g>...let us at least
discuss it a bit more...because I'm learning things about Arachne that
I never knew (or only half realized)....<g g g g>
..so...SOME productive thought, here, will be useful...

....gregy

.....and............."Joerg Dietze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> as we all know, the existing 640kB are almost overloaded in most
> computers. Do You rember all the tricks to free up some byte more to get
> Arachne running? And if You look in mime.cfg, most plugins are running
> in 32bit protected mode already. I guess it's time to have a 32bit
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> core.exe, too. IMHO, this would help to get rid of the xSwap errors and
> the "Memory Monster", which is still alive in xSwap mem. Old 486 and
> Pentiums can be bought for a few bucks or saved from dump so I guess
> it's worth thinking of breaking support for XT's.

hmmmm...I didn't know THAT...!!!....good thing someone around here
knows what they are talking about...<g g g>....to be sure, MIME.CFG
has always thrown me for a loop....but I guess I'll have to get in
and DIG...

.....gregy


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