[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tn9aqg$9ab$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Joukj
<joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> writes: 

> > I believe GS and GV are written in C. And VMS C is VMS C. So it should
> > be possible to get those running on VMS x86-64. Maybe someone
> > even already got them running.
> > 
> Sure it is C and they run both on Alpha and Itanium.
> 
> But the problem at this moment (please correct me if not true) is that 
> for displaying they use DECWindows. I thought I read somewhere that on 
> x86-64 this still is a dummy library which only is included to get no 
> linking problems for programs that also have a text-interface I did not 
> see in any of the road maps that this will be changed in the near 
> future. Probably a X-server is not needed, but a client library would be 
> welcome, so that we can display on a "remote" server (i.e. by tunneling 
> via an ssh-connection)

For what it's worth, VSI stated that they would support the on-chip 
graphics, which should be enough for DECwindows and CDE.