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From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:10:48 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2667.80.75.66.29.1145437848.squirrel@www.gradwell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4445F855.2060402@servium.ch>

On Wed, April 19, 2006 09:44, Rico Pajarola wrote:

>
> As for the OS Tim Berners-Lee used for his first Browser, I believe that
> it was made on a Norsk Data Technostation. There is very few information
> available on these machines, and I don't think there is an emulator for
> them. There are only a few webpages mentioning it at all: see
> http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~toresbe/nd/history.html for example (it has a
> picture of the machine, note the funny terminal with the two LCD's in
> addition to the monitor). I recently donated my Technostation to a
> computer museum...

I understood it was NeXTStep
(http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html would seem to back
that up).  So that would be running on some kind of NeXT box I should
think.  Today's descendent is MacOS X, which still has a lot of things
named NS* in it.

--tim




  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5.1145412001.42991.pups@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-04-19  8:44 ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19  9:10   ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2006-04-19 13:24     ` Toby Thain
2006-04-19 13:26     ` Toby Thain
2006-04-19 14:17       ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19 22:59   ` Tore S Bekkedal
2006-04-20  6:18     ` Rico Pajarola
2006-04-19 12:51 ` Milo Velimirovic
2006-04-19 22:47   ` Tore S Bekkedal
2006-04-19  0:46 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey
2006-04-19  1:42 ` Charlie ROOT
2006-04-19 11:45   ` [pups] " Christopher McNabb
2006-04-19 14:36     ` Bill Gunshannon
2006-04-19  4:10 ` Carl Lowenstein
2006-04-19 22:36 ` Tore S Bekkedal
2006-04-19 23:05   ` Bill Cunningham
2006-04-21  3:37     ` Kelli Halliburton
2006-04-21  7:43       ` Tim Bradshaw

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