Some links in this document work only if you are
connected to Internet. Most important online link for you is
Arachne Labs online homepage,
where you can get the latest version of Arachne.
To get general up-to date information, send blank e-mail to
info@arachne.cz.
If you have question concerning licensing, please contact sales@arachne.cz.
Credits:
- All registered users of Arachne.
- All members of Arachne mailing list - without their
bug reports, Arachne will be just another NCSA Mosaic or Arena.
- Linus Thorvalds - author of my favourite operating system.
- Authors of Fast Tracker II - program with the best graphical
user interface in DOS. I would never even think about writing Arachne
without experiencing Fast Tracker II.
- Authors of GIMP - the "GNU Photoshop"
- Caldera, Big Electronics, Patrick Sim, H.W.Wilson,
TeleMED , GE Capital Bank - for licensing Arachne
- NAF - for 2 years of internet connectivity, online disk space and sales management
- Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of World Wide Web.
- Hynek Med - for numerous comments about Arachne (in)compatibility with RFC
documents, for administration of our server (without knowing root password ;-).
- Countless registered and unregistered fans of Arachne, who keep on flooding
me with tons of enthusiastic e-mails ;-) Let's hope we will manage
to survive in competition with those two huge dinousaurs, MSIE and Mozilla
Notes:
LZW algorithm used to decompress GIF files is implemented in IBASE
group graphics library X_LOPIF since 1992.
Arachne was written in C language and compiled using Borland C++ 3.1 compiler.
Development started in 1996. At that time, I was usning my old noname
computer, which doesn't exceed minimal configuration:
386DX/40, 8 MB, 600 MB HDD, Trident 512 kB SVGA, 14" color monitor, 14400 noname
faxmodem, MS-DOS 6.22, Desqview. Windows 95 with Netscape were painfuly
slow on this hardware, so I deleted them and started to write my own
browser.
Development of Arachne now continues on my new noname
AMD K5/133, 32 MB, 2.5 GB HDD, S3 Virge 2 MB and OpenDOS 7.02, but we
are still testing Arachne on slow PCs with 386 CPU and on HP 1000 CX,
PC-XT compatible palmtop with 1 MB of RAM.
In Greek language, Arachne means spider. According to ancient Greek
legend, Arachne was a name of woman, who dared to compete with godess
Athena. Arachne won, but Athena punished her - Athena turned Arachne
into a spider.