[Info-vax] the document describing the system service transfer vector

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 9/20/2022 2:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 
>> Unless things have changed modern web browsers are available
>> Open Source.  All it would take was someone who knew VMS
>> development to do the port.  After, of course, someone did
>> a port of a modern version of X11 (also opensource).  :-)
>
> It would probably be hard to find a 100% closed source web
> browser today.
>
>:-)
>
> But they are pretty big.
>
> It is more than the browser and X.
>
> It would need GTK+ or Qt on top of X.
>
> It would need a JavaScript engine.
>
> It would need uptodate versions of a bunch of graphic
> and video libraries.
>

Also add:

Modern version of C++.

Depending on browser, maybe a Rust port as well.

A modern build system.

Emulation of any missing or incomplete Unix APIs that the browser needs.

It is also unclear to me if the version of X running under VMS would
be modern enough to support such a port.

Simon.

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