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NDLP Glossary - B
- browser
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An informal, generic term used for World Wide Web client software. A
common variant is web-browser. Examples are:
- Netscape, a commercial browser with a graphical user
interface, available for several types of computing platform, widely
used at LC on computers running Windows.
- lynx, a text-only browser for UNIX, available on LC's RS8
system.
- Mosaic, the first graphical user interface for the World Wide
Web, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) and available free for several types of computing platform. The
original developer of Mosaic, left NCSA to develop the commercial browser,
Netscape.
- WebExplorer, a graphical browser developed by IBM for the OS/2
operating system.
Browsers for personal computers are often supported by
external viewers
for different types of digital object, such as documents marked
up in SGML, TIFF images, or digital sound recordings.
- BWS
- Bibliographic WorkStation. The Library of Congress
workstation for catalogers. It consists of software modules and
specified configuration for a personal computer running OS/2. The BWS
software was developed to emulate the specialized terminals used
earlier to access the MUMS cataloging system. These terminals were based on
the IBM 3270 terminal architecture and provided support for extended
character sets, diacritics, etc.
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