[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2022 8:50 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1:
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

That was what I expected. George Cook did a damn good job
maintaining VMS Mosaic for many years. But age shows.

Any chance that you could make your changes to make
it build and run on VMS x86-64 available for the public?

It is very old, but until NS or FF are available then
it is what is available. And even though I do not see
much professional usage, then it could be relevant
for hobbyists.

Arne