19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
3:10 p.m.
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