On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:32 PM Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suppose what confuses me is the idea that one cannot do much in dos on > the internet. Perhaps you are speaking of direct connecting, although my > understanding that the <spelling> Arachnid browser for dos supports > JavaScript just fine, although I have not used it directly.
Arachne has some support for JavaScript, but it takes more than just that. Current web standards include HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. I'm not aware of any DOS browser supporting HTML5, or supporting CSS at all, and JavaScript is a moving target that is still evolving. If you can meet your needs using DOS to reach the Internet, more power to you. If you need to do what people currently think of as accessing the Internet and web browsing, DOS is not what you use. It simply can't do what is required, and will never be able to. DOS originated on hardware a tiny fraction of the power of current devices, and the stuff that can do what is needed requires more powerful gear that DOS does not support. When I got FreeDOS up on an ancient notebook, I didn't even try to access the internet from it. That was something else's job. and the notebook multibooted and I had Win2K Pro and a couple of flavors of Linux as well as FreeDOS. (And even connected via CAT5 cable to my router, Internet access left a lot to be desired from Windows or Linux. The box was hobbled by low RAM and IDE4 drive. It was strictly a test bed to see what performance I could wring out of limited hardware without throwing money at it, and actual work was done elsewhere. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
