X-To: "Bernhard Hane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Bernhard!
13 May 2002, Bernhard Hane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BH> Arachne works amazingly well, but is much slower in this configuration
BH> than Opera 6.01 on Win95 on the same machine.
Arachne has to do many things itself, that Opera has not to (because it can
rely on OS functions)
Arachne can only access 640 KB at a time,
arachne is not multithreaded,
arachne calls an external app to convert JPGs and PNGs .......
BH> Could you please fix up a full version of DOS 3.3 with all the goodies
BH> for speed?
Have you partitions > 32 MB ??
yes -> forget dos 3.3
PS: DOS can only speed up DOS API calls ...
and arachne does not use sooooooooo many that this would make a great
difference !
BH> Would making a large enough Turbodisk and loading all
BH> Arachne files in it improve browsing speed?
What is a turbodisk ??
BH> I have DSL and a 100 Mbps LAN.
DSL is the limiting factor there ...
in other words it is completely irrelevant if it is a 10 or 100 MBit/s NIC.
BH> Also, since Opera is very fast, and has been ported to many platforms,
BH> how about a DOS port?
Talk to operasoft.com
IMHO this will not happen, because:
1) the market is too little
2) Opera relies on certain functions that the OS should provide, and which
DOS does not provide (normal memory management in protectedmode, built in
TCP/IP stack, threads .........)
BH> Do you know a good way to get a Dvorak keyboard layout in DOS?
get a dvorak keyboard driver.
I don't know where you can find one, but I'm sure that they are out there
:) (google is your friend)
BH> Bernie
CU, Ricsi
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