On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:36:01 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:

>Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>>Doesn't that still require a browser?
>
>Yes. And a human being with reasonable reading comprehension, too. There
>are some inescapable prerequisites.
>
>Fortunately, so far as I'm aware, there isn't any desktop, laptop,
>smartphone, or tablet operating system that ships without a Web browser.
>Every desktop, laptop, smartphone, and tablet operating system introduced
>within the past decade and a half, at least, includes a Web browser. In
>contrast, sadly, there are many desktop, laptop, smartphone, and tablet
>operating systems that don't include 3270 terminal emulators. All of them,
>as far as I know.
>
OTOH, for Mac OS, Linux, and Cygwin they're very easy to get, at a very
attractive price.

(What about Raspberry Pi?  Does anyone know?  Google gives lots of hits,
but in the end, the links are all broken.  Maybe I should compile one.)

On the Gripping Hand, if the programmer suffers the delusion that he can
use only a coax-wired 327x, he's SOL.

I stumbled on a browser called Lobo, written in Java.  It sucks on any
platform I've tried it on; not worth agitating my admins to get X11 working
on z/OS so I can see whether it compatibly sucks there, also.

-- gil

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