I have noticed a decrease in posts to arachne, survpc, and other ``older'' software/hardware listservrs.
I wonder if this is a symptom of surrender to the everchanging software/hardware times? For instance, given the lack of a new version of arachne for some time, the increase of java, javascript, style sheets, new html markup, picture richness -- whatever on the more and more gaudy current webpages -- arachne people have ``faced the music'' that arachne will not be able to render more and more of these sad, trendy sites? Therefore, more and more of us are tackling linux, using whatever version of winblows 9x or whatever we can stand -- to access web pages? When one thinks of the current landscape where harddisk sizes of 100 GIGS (!), processors of 1G, hugely bloated and innefecient programming stlyes and applications of common -- humble shunned DOS is looking more and more remarkable: An entire OS capable of running most devices and software apps. -- that is small enough to still fit on a single floppy disk!
