8 Aug
2015
8 Aug
'15
1:15 a.m.
On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 at 18:11:09 -0400, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
But I'm also interested in older software as well. One of my "when I get
around to it" projects is playing with the Viola web browser [4]. Written
in the early 90s, it *barely* compiles on a 32-bit Unix system and while it
may compile on a 64-bit system, it's unrunnable [5]. It has a scripting
language built in, but it is its own scripting language that is quite
annoying to actually use. I've been trying to update the code so it will at
least run on modern systems, and then next, replace the scripting language
with something more reasonable.
[5] Because integers and pointers will always be 32 bits right?
The DEC C / Compaq C / HP C or whatever it is called this week compiler on
Alpha or IA64 VMS has 32 bits ints and pointers can be 32 or 64 bits.
I think the similarly named compiler on OSF1 / Digital Unix / Tru64 or
whatever that is called this week offers the same facilites.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.