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by bstx 5066 days ago
Has someone ever tried to compile/port the first web browser [1] on a modern OS X machine?

[1] http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/
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chrisdevereux 5065 days ago
Heh. Nice idea. It uses the old NextStep AppKit classes (rather than OpenStep, which Cocoa descends from) so you'd have to reimplement them, possibly as wappers around the modern AppKit api. It might also depend on some older features of the objective-c runtime, which would need to be worked around.

Could be a nice 'just for fun' sort of project though...

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gue5t 5065 days ago
No, but I have gotten Erwise (<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Erwise>) running (with some patches and some bugs) on a modern 64-bit machine running Linux.
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