Subj : Re: Ressurection
To   : Janne Johansson
From : Dave Drum
Date : Tue Mar 28 2017 06:23:54

-=> Janne Johansson wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 > 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.

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

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

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

It was mostly wishful thinking. I have other, more important projects to take 
care of before I decide to raise my frustration levels to apoplectic levels. 
Although, if I had the source for Varpoware's Voyager browser .....

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