[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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<83421cb9-3c47-4aa1-bd5a-0e1b2f10c05c at g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>,
John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> Additionally, and subject to correction from the audience: Where did
> you get your browser? Do you know how it was built (specifically, how
> it was compiled)? EV4/21064 didn't have byte instructions as such, so
> byte manipulation as used in lots of PC-centric software becomes a
> sequence of instructions. If your binary was compiled to be run-
> anywhere ie EV4-compatible it will be unnecessarily slow when run on
> hardware such as EV6 which does have the byte stuff built in.

That might be an issue.  I downloaded the PCSI kit from HP back in 2006 
or so....