MidasWWW is one of the earliest (now discontinued)
web browser
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s, developed at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, United States. Founded in 1962, the laboratory is now sponsored ...
Center (SLAC).
It ran under
Unix
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and
OpenVMS
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. The last release was version 2.2. The 16 Nov 1992
sources
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Research
* Historical document
* Historical source
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were made available in June 2015 at
GitHub
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.
midasWWW
at github
References
External links
The historic MidasWWW homepage
at CERN
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POSIX web browsers
1992 software
Discontinued web browsers
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