[LINK] RFC: The Web in Oz, 1992-94

Steven Clark steven.clark at internode.on.net
Wed Dec 14 18:48:46 AEDT 2011


Was 0.8 one of the rapid patch releases that addressed a flaw picked up as/once the previous version was released into the wild? I seem to recall one or two, particularly for the Windows version of mosaic.

IIRC there was a broken Windows TCP/IP stack around at about that time?

Steven

On 14/12/2011, at 17:32, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>wrote:
> 
>> But the (unreliable!) document at
>> ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Windows/Archive/MosaicHistory.html
>> doesn't even mention v0.8.
>> 
> 
> Those numbers/dates appear to apply only to the Windows version.
> 
> 
>> mid-1993?
>> 
> 
> http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0159.html shows that
> Mosaic 0.8 was released on/around Feb 14, 1993 - which appears to be all of
> 3 days after 0.7 was released...  (And I thought the new Firefox release
> schedule was short!)
> 
>  Scott
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