[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/13/2022 5:14 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> 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.

I don't know where source for VMS NetScape is and I don't know
how difficult to port to VMS x86-64.

VMS Mosaic is here:

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v70/mosaic/

Arne