Web-browser rivalery!

[CP/M User]

> Oh come on. You know Opera is the awesome, most
> Firefox extensions only add functionality that's
> built in to Opera (the rest eat memory and crash it,
> and Opera's the fastest graphical browser on all
> platforms, Windows or not.

I might get my butt kicked for posting this (IMO it'll be
worth every penny), though nothing beats DOS. A DOS web
browser is faster with a 1/4 of the memory than what -any-
web-browser running in Windows, so if I had a slower machine
with a 1/4 of a gig web-browser running in DOS as opposed to a
1/2 gig windows box running at twice the speed - the result
will always beat the trash Windows has to do in setup time.

In effect nobodies hurting Microsoft by running rival web-
browsers - you should be all out there with your BASIC OSes
which whip the GUI platforms anytime. Give it to the machine I
say.

CP/M User.

[Mad-Mike]

I agree, lookie at this............

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c362/creepingnet2001/286runninggoogle80060016bit.jpg

Computer running this......


GEM 286/10
4MB of RAM
Arachne (latest version as of June 30th 2006)
12MHz CPU overclocked via Co-Processor
OTI 1MB SVGA card running at 800X600 @ 16 bit Hi-Color

I should caught some shots of it on www.gamegenie.com. It fully rendered the whole site, tables, background, images, and all, though it took it a minute or two. Once it was cache'd though, the load times went down.

And my Windows NT machine can't beat my 286 downloading a 4MB file! Probably because the ol' DOS Box don't need to authenticate a ton of security crap to keep out spyware, viruses, and browser hijacks from the download. If I get a virus on the 286, chances are it's 32 bit, and will pass over the top of everything. If it want's to fry the BIOS, tough crap, the BIOS is a ROM, not a Flash BIOS. Take down my whole DOS installation, no problem, I'll be back on-line in 15 (worst case scenario = Floppy Diskettes) minutes, compared to the 4-6 hours it takes to get Linux, Windows 2000, and all my applications back on the Pentium III when it goes down. Any sites I have issues with in Arachne, are not that important or worth going to anyway!