16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
3:50 p.m.
On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It's been a while, but I seem to recall the Netscape browser
running quite nicely under VMS.
Also (to the original poster) keep in mind that VAX is a much more
memory-efficient architecture overall...16MB is a respectable amount
of memory in a VAX.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
PS. To try and
keep this on topic, is it possible to surf the 'net
on say a VAX? I don't expect it to run Flash etc. but basic text
and images? Or would memory be a problem?
When you say "VAX", I presume you mean under VMS. Dunno about text
_and_ images, but Lynx should be easy to get working under VMS (it
should be _trivial_ to get working under 4BSD or Ultrix). I don't
have any experience with programming any workstation environments
under VMS - text only for me, whether by serial cable and VT100 or by
network port (DECnet, etc). It's not impossible to do it, even if
your VAX has less than 16meg of physical memory (a VAXstation 2000,
say), but I don't know if anyone has done it yet.
There is a graphical browser for the C-64, IIRC. Surely one could
match that level of performance with a VS2000. ;-)