[publius911]

I notice Windows XP and Windows 7 are not on the list of compatible OS’s.

[re_nortex]

I notice Windows XP and Windows 7 are not on the list of compatible OS’s.

My guess -- and it's only that -- since Windows is unfamiliar territory for me is that Cygwin may provide the "platform within a platform" for these text-based browsers, regardless of the Windows variant involved.

There's one more lightweight, text-based browser to add to the list and that's Elinks: A Full-Featured Text WWW Browser.

And of course in recent Emacs versions, there's always this command (which gives me a chuckle when I invoke it):

M-x eww

That's the mode for browsing the web and it's quite feature-rich but still very fast. It's what I used to post this response, BTW.