[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/20/2011 3:06 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
>> On 2/20/2011 4:15 AM, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
>>
>>> In
>>> article<ed14e8a8-e2d1-49ff-88b1-b884218c76d7 at l22g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
>>> Wendell<wendellxe at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Feb 18, 4:39=A0pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
>>>> Helbig---
>>>> undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I want to
>>>>> get a somewhat more modern web browser to run on VMS on ALPHA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering why the HP Firefox Web Browser V2.0-18 isn't available
>>>> for Alpha. Is there a lot more than a recompile involved?
>>>>
>>>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/firefox/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> HP isn't interested in having browsers on VMS.
>>> Firefox was a one time port for a large customer.
>>> It isn't kept current (even on Itanic) - unless someone pays again.
>>>
>>> Sigh
>>> And another Sigh for HPQ talking (for years now) over this old/single
>>> port
>>>
>>
>> There are MUCH cheaper ways to browse the web. I suspect that you
>> could buy a thousand PCs with Windows (browser included) for what an
>> up-to-date browser for VMS would cost.
>
> I wonder when some people will finally get it:
> it's not about browsing the web the *cheapest* way,
> it's about browsing the web with *VMS*.
>
>

Go thou, and write your browser.  I predict that it will fall flat on 
its face in the market place.

Face it, VMS has been on life support for the last ten or twelve years!
MUMPS and CACHE experience is almost a requirement for any job involving 
VMS!

Comp.os.vms is a pale shadow of what it was twenty years ago.

To our noble selves.  There are damned few of us left!