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From: bill.gun...@gmail.com (Bill Gunshannon)
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Subject: Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:45:31 -0400
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by: Bill Gunshannon - Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:45 UTC

On 9/20/22 14:40, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-09-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 9/20/2022 2:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>
>>> Unless things have changed modern web browsers are available
>>> Open Source. All it would take was someone who knew VMS
>>> development to do the port. After, of course, someone did
>>> a port of a modern version of X11 (also opensource). :-)
>>
>> It would probably be hard to find a 100% closed source web
>> browser today.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> But they are pretty big.
>>
>> It is more than the browser and X.
>>
>> It would need GTK+ or Qt on top of X.
>>
>> It would need a JavaScript engine.
>>
>> It would need uptodate versions of a bunch of graphic
>> and video libraries.
>>
>
> Also add:
>
> Modern version of C++.
>
> Depending on browser, maybe a Rust port as well.
>
> A modern build system.
>
> Emulation of any missing or incomplete Unix APIs that the browser needs.
>
> It is also unclear to me if the version of X running under VMS would
> be modern enough to support such a port.

Thus the reason I said, "After, of course, someone did
a port of a modern version of X11 (also opensource)."

bill

"Well hello there Charlie Brown, you blockhead." -- Lucy Van Pelt

computers / comp.os.vms / the document describing the system service transfer vector

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the document describing the system service transfer vector	hb
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	hb
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Andy Burns
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Stephen Hoffman
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	VAXman-
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Andy Burns
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	VAXman-
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Arne Vajhøj
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Arne Vajhøj
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Arne Vajhøj
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Phillip Helbig (undress to reply
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	John Dallman
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Arne Vajhøj
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Simon Clubley
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Bill Gunshannon
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	David Jones
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Arne Vajhøj
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	David Jones
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Simon Clubley
Re: the document describing the system service transfer vector	Single Stage to Orbit