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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/20/22 14:40, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Thus the reason I said, "After, of course, someone did
a port of a modern version of X11 (also opensource)."


bill