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.

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..

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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