On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 at 18:11:09 -0400, Sean Conner <s...@conman.org> wrote:
> > But I'm also interested in older software as well. One of my "when I get > around to it" projects is playing with the Viola web browser [4]. Written > in the early 90s, it *barely* compiles on a 32-bit Unix system and while it > may compile on a 64-bit system, it's unrunnable [5]. It has a scripting > language built in, but it is its own scripting language that is quite > annoying to actually use. I've been trying to update the code so it will at > least run on modern systems, and then next, replace the scripting language > with something more reasonable. > > > [5] Because integers and pointers will always be 32 bits right? > The DEC C / Compaq C / HP C or whatever it is called this week compiler on Alpha or IA64 VMS has 32 bits ints and pointers can be 32 or 64 bits. I think the similarly named compiler on OSF1 / Digital Unix / Tru64 or whatever that is called this week offers the same facilites. Regards, Peter Coghlan.
