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- .name
- Mosaic
- .type
- Networking
- .short
- Amiga World-Wide-Web browser
- .description
- Amiga Mosaic is a networked information discovery, retrieval, and
- collaboration tool originally developed at the National Center for
- Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana
- and then ported to the Amiga by Michael Fischer, Michael Witbrock, Michael
- Meyer, and Steve Dunham.
-
- Mosaic provides a hypertext interface to the global Internet. Hypertext
- is text which contains highlighted links, called hyperlinks or anchors,
- to other texts. Each highlighted phrase (in color or underlined) is a
- hyperlink to another document or information resource somewhere on the
- Net. A single click with the left mouse button on any highlighted
- phrase will follow the link, and Mosaic will retrieve the document
- associated with the selected hyperlink and display it.
-
- The Mosaic client communicates with HTTP servers. HTTP is the HyperText
- Transfer Protocol of the WWW (World Wide Web). Mosaic can also communicate
- with more traditional Internet protocols such as FTP, Gopher, WAIS, NNTP,
- etc.
-
- The hypertext documents viewed with Mosaic are written in HTML (HyperText
- Markup Language), which is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup
- Language). Among the many formatting features, HTML allows Mosaic to
- display inlined images. (In fact, an inlined images can serve as a
- hyperlink just like a word or phrase can).
-
- Mosaic also features unlimited multimedia capabilities. File types
- that Mosaic cannot handle internally, such as mpeg movies, sound
- files, Postscript documents, and JPEG images, are automatically sent
- to external viewers (or players).
- .version
- 1.2
- .date
- 1994.06.14
- .author
- Originally from the NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana
- Amiga port by Michael Fischer, Michael Witbrock, Michael Meyer,
- and Steve Dunham
- .requirements
- Requires OS2.x, (Some features require OS3.x), MUI 2.0+, Network usage
- requires AmiTCP 3.0 beta 2, AS225 Release 2, or DNET.
- .email
- amosaic@max.physics.sunysb.edu
- .docs
- README
- .described-by
- Dan Fish (daf@starfish.amigalib.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.
-