Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing Trends) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Feb 1998

What would be nice is an ELKS-like thing for DOS, so that one could
stick in a floppy disk, and it would boot into any program that you
choose, without Command.Com. This would be great for web browsers.
But I really don't get this emphasis on making multimedia kiosks with
weird software combos! Every other OS page is about this, and I would
like to see something besides using DOS to sell clothes...
...
 >QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the
look of Windows 95,  has
...
 >builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other
little doodads, and  to
...
  top it off, a
fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web browser. Also 
Okay, QNX sounds pretty cool, but I hafta throw my vote in for Arachne.
Graphical DOS web browser runs on anything, I think, and works great.   I
...
 found it when I was looking for something to preview my
web pages in (I  do
...
 'em in a DOS Editor).  

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