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dekhn 4 days ago

For a while MSFT had a port of Internet Explorer for Solaris and HP-UX (this was a quarter century ago!).

SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent [-]

Internet Explorer was originally based on the NCSA Mosaic browser, which had ports for major UNIX platforms.

classichasclass 4 days ago | parent [-]

Indirectly. IE was based on Spyglass Mosaic, which was a licensee of NCSA Mosaic. However, Spyglass had rewritten it to deal with the substantial differences between the Mac, Windows and X11 ports, so even early versions of IE aren't directly descended. Microsoft eventually removed Spyglass' copyright message around IE 7, suggesting no Mosaic code persisted by then.