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

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Wed Dec 14 19:22:23 AEDT 2011


On 14/12/11 6:48 PM, Steven Clark wrote:
> 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?
Can't remember the broken one, do remember Trumpet Winsock - an Oz 
invention - that really deserves a mention, since it made dial-up 
Internet actually *usable* for Windows users of only moderate capability ...

RC
>
> 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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