From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toresbe@ifi.uio.no (Tore S Bekkedal) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:47:25 +0200 Subject: [pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1145486845.3928.31.camel@fortran.babel> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:51 -0500, Milo Velimirovic wrote: > Doubtful. Everything I have read leads me to believe that Tim Berners- > Lee wrote the first web browser on using a NeXT cube running an early > version (2.x or earlier) of the NEXTSTEP operating system. Sorry, quick trigger finger, wrote the previous reply before checking the rest of the thread and accidentally sending it.. Tim Berners-Lee wrote what could be thought of as an early prototype of the Web on a Norsk Data SINTRAN-III/VSX minicomputer. Though it was probably not a Technostation (In a talk at the CHM, Tim Berners-Lee mentions giving the program (called ENQUIRE) to someone on an 8" floppy, which would place it far away in time from the Technostation (which was in the late eighties and a special-purpose CAD workstation) and closer to the (binary-compatible) 32-bit ND-5x0 systems, which were quite popular at CERN. Also, IIRC the manual discusses the use of a TDV terminal, which were the (awesome!) CRT terminals that came with the system) However, the HTTP-style Web was indeed written on a NeXT cube. -toresbe :)