I have Moasic on my Alpha 2100 running VMS On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Sean Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- Bill vintagecomputer.net
