Re: porting?

[Dancer <dancer@brisnet.org.au>]

>From memory, the development base machine for Netscape is currently
Macintosh, with the code then ported to the PC.

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Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard Chu wrote:
>
> > and all of which come with annoying amounts of inefficient code... My
> > guess, since Netscape is descended from Mosaic, and was written by PC
> > programmers using Microsoft compilers, is that the code sucks big time.
>
> I believe Mosaic was licenced by Microsoft, which used it as a base
> for their Internet Explorer. And I don't think the creators of Mosaic
> used Microsoft compilers (but what do I know?), as it was originally
> developed on unix-platforms.
>
> Ditto with Netscape, IIRC it was first released on unix-platforms (I
> remember using the first versions on solaris and irix early 1995), it
> took a while before the Windows- and Mac-versions was released.
>
> Anyway, considering the size of the binary and general complexity of
> the program, I think it's safe to say that the code is a mess ;-)
>
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