[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. 
> 
> Arne

You are right. It only took 5 hours to get Mosaic working on X86.
But though it is 'only' 18 years old it is missing some features we
would need - and the character rendering is very zigzaggy.
I will try to get a hold on newer browser sources.

Andreas