[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Forster, Michael]

True.

On Feb 20, 2011, at 5:00 PM, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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!
> 
> 
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