DEC Alpha 3000 Model 600

[Sean Caron]

I am pretty sure I remember a Netscape build for VMS long ago ... but I
can't say for sure. I may have just been running on a UNIX machine with
remote X to the VAX ... I don't recall. All my VMS systems run just in text
mode nowadays so I can't really do a lot of first-hand experimentation. I
definitely remember running Netscape on an old DECpc AXP 150 with 128 Meg
RAM (under Tru64) and it worked well enough.

Best,

Sean


On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Jason Howe <jason at smbfc.net> wrote:

>
> On 09/20/2015 05:41 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
>> I'm pleased to be able to report the successful installation of OpenVMS
>> 8.3 - Alpha on my  3000 M600
>> It now runs Dec Windows on the graphics screen and a terminal on the
>> serial port.
>> TCPIP works and I can get to my local network OK.
>>
>> Now to find a browser. There must have been one
>>
>> Rod
>>
>>
>> Rod,
>
> There is the Compaq Secure Web Browser, which is a horribly ancient
> compile of netscape? Mozilla?  can't remember at the moment.
>
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/cswbs/cswbs.html
>
> It barely runs on my Dec 3000 w/ 192 MB of memory.
>
> There are VMS builds of lynx/links out there for VMS which run much
> better, but as with all terminal based text web browsers are of dubious
> utility.
>
> --Jason
>