Subj : Ressurection was:Macintosh echo
To   : Dave Drum
From : Janne Johansson
Date : Tue Mar 28 2017 11:56:46

On 2017-03-21 11:54, Dave Drum : Drew Klenotic wrote:

> The bringing back to life of the Burroughs will happen. I'm not sure on the
> BBS. But your mention of Lantronic  gave me a thought ..... about my Amiga
> boxes. I still wouldn't have a decent browser but heck, life isn't all
> about
> the interweb anyway. And I might get inspired to clean the rust off of my
> feeble programming skills to port a *nix browser to the Amiga OS. Amiga
> Dos is
> very Unix-like anyway.

I think you would be amazed on how much trickery modern (even
non-graphical ones) browsers do just to support some simple level of
javascript support, so don't expect any quick wins in porting stuff over
just because it feels unixlike at times. I do agree it is in some
regards, but other stuff is just tough to handle when porting.

Stuff like "hey, we have unlimited stack so lets just brk() like crazy"
or "Javascript engine asks for 1G ram upfront for the JIT conversion and
hopes the OS wont map in pages we don't touch", or being able to send
file descriptors around, having sockets and files use identical
interfaces and so on. All of those "assumptions" get kinda hard to move
over to non-unix OSes, especielly if someone decides to use some
fancy-pants C11 language features in some odd part like xml decoding or
so and your compiler just wont eat that.

Then again, ixemul and other stuff helps out a lot, but .. bumpy ride it
is..

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