VMS Mosaic is supported on VAXes running OpenVMS 5.4-3 thru 7.3, on Alpha systems using OpenVMS V1.5 thru 8.2, and on IA64 systems running OpenVMS V8.1 thru 8.2-1. Mosaic will work with UCX (TCP/IP Services), CMU, MultiNet, Pathway, TCPware or SOCKETSHR with NETLIB. CMU TCP/IP is supported via LIBCMUII or SOCKETSHR. The Mosaic has been compiled with VAX C, DEC C and GNU C (VAX version 2.7.1 only). Versions 1.1 thru 1.5 of DECwindows Motif are supported. Both HP SSL and OpenSSL are supported for secure connections.
On 2/6/16, Richard Loken <rllo...@telus.net> wrote: > Gentlemen, I stumbled across a reference to Mosaic 4.0 for VMS dated 2006. > > I ran Mosaic on my VMS workstation around 1994 and had abandoned it long > ago first for Netscape 3.0.3 and later for Seamonkey. > > I did not know that there was any development on Mosaic in recent decades > I found Seamonkey to be glacially slow on AlphaServer 4100 "desktop" and > so I have not attempted to do much web browsing on VMS in recent years. > > So... Is Mosaic 4.0 useful in 2016? Is it more useful than Seamonkey? > Netscape? AFAIR, HP had a port of Firefox to IA64 VMS but not to Alpha, > has anybody been so burdened with spare time that they have attempted > to port firefox to Alpha or VAX VMS? Or any other web browser? > > I hope to attempt a port of the heritage version of nroff/troff to VMS > some time in the next couple years (I think groff would be much more > difficult). But that is a differant subject. > > -- > Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those > Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our > Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" > ** rllo...@telus.net ** : - Arthur Black > -- Chris Halarewich
