Andrew K. Bressen skrev:

This was addressed to me, but I think it might be of interest to the list...

>I ran ultrix boxes around the time mosaic communications was
>turning into netscape, and I was doing a net startup at the time,
>so I was pretty constantly on the watch for new web browsers;
>I'm 99% sure that if a port was ever done to ultrix, it was
>not ever released. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't ever done.
>DEC didn't care, and there just weren't that many ultrix users around.

>netscape was barely able to keep up with irix and aix versions, and
>linux was still in the works. Given ultrix' lack of dynamic linking
>and the ram limits of the newly orphaned mips hardware, the port would
>not have been trivial and the results less than pleasing.

>My partner and I had a discussion once, sometime in '94 or '95, about
>how funny it was that a port got done to VMS and not ultrix. This was
>also, of course, between ultrix 4.4 and 4.5, and shortly after dec had
>backed away from letting osf/1 for the mips architecture be released.

I think we've established this as a sad but inevitable fact already. The
Mozilla Netscape rumour must have been but a wild rumour.

OTOH, a while ago, I had another idea - there must be Netscape versions for
other MIPS machines, namely SGI. I doubt that there is any Irix emulation for
NetBSD, but it would certainly be a owrthwhile development if it meant that
we'd get a reasonable web browser for the NetBSD MIPS platforms.

Any input?

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