[pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix

Toby Thain toby at smartgames.ca
Wed Apr 19 23:26:04 AEST 2006


On 19-Apr-06, at 5:10 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:

> 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).

Further to last post, see this note by TBL: http:// 
www.mirrorservice.org/sites/browsers.evolt.org/browsers/worldwideweb/ 
NeXT/WorldWideWeb.html
(includes link to screenshot).

--Toby

> ...
>
> --tim
>
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