Bill is right. In fact, the story is that Arachne was punished for considering herself to be as beautiful as the gods by being turned into a "web" crawling spider. Hence the name.
John Hebert --- Bill DePierri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know why you call "Arachne" a stupid name. > Just remember, "Arachne" > spelled backwards is "Enhcara". Actually, Arachne > was the name of an > ancient Greek mythological figure. > > Bill DePierri > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Byron Como > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 11:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Obituary for MS-DOS > > Larry Braud wrote: > > >DOS IS DEAD, LONG LIVE LINUX! > > > >================================================ > >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > >your subscription information. > >================================================ > > > I don't know about that. Somebody is still activlly > developing for DOS. > Arachne, the graphical web browser for DOS. <snide > remark> what a dumb > name </snide remark> > > If these guys were Polish it would make a good joke: > http://www.arachne.cz/ > > I loaded this up a couple years ago. If all you > want to do is browse > the internet on a 486 this works pretty good. > Amazingly easy to get > running compared to Windows or Linux. > > Ahhh, those were/are the days. > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
