[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Andreas Gruhl]

Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1:
> On 12/12/2022 8:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > On 12/12/2022 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> However, I wonder what would be involved in getting Dillo to build on 
> >> VMS: 
> >> 
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo 
> > 
> > The two main potential problems must be compiler version support 
> > (especially C++) and X11 version support. 
> > 
> > The first will be solved when CLang becomes available on 
> > VMS x86-64. 
> > 
> > We will not know the actual problems until someone 
> > actually tries building it.
> If one could live with very old HTML standards, then 
> the easiest graphical browser to get to build would 
> probably be VMS Mosaic. It builds with VMS C and I would 
> expect it to build on (currently: for) VMS x86-64. 
> 
> But it is 25 years old - older than VMS NetScape. There must 
> be a lot of missing features in 2022. 
Well, we could live with very old standards. We need no fancy stuff at all.
If we just could find the source for one of the last browser versions compiled for Itanium we would dive into it and see what's coming out on X86.
That would be far better than having nothing at all.
Andreas
> 
> Arne