General Information
What is NCSA Mosaic?
NCSA Mosaic is a networked information discovery, retrieval, and collaboration
tool and World Wide Web
browser developed at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications. In other words, Mosaic is an
interface to the Internet.
You are currently reading the FAQ list for the X Window System version of
Mosaic. Other supported platforms are:
Where can I get NCSA Mosaic?
NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic. Both
source code and binaries (for Sun, SGI, IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha OSF/1, DEC
Ultrix, and HP-UX) are available. For more information, see the summary
of availability and features of NCSA-supplied Mosaic 2.0 binaries
(You don't need to have Motif installed on your system to run NCSA Mosaic, if
you pick up a precompiled binary. You do need Motif 1.1 to compile NCSA
Mosaic, though.)
Who developed NCSA Mosaic?
Eric Bina and Marc
Andreessen at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications developed most of NCSA Mosaic.
The CERN World Wide
Web project (in particular, Tim
Berners-Lee) developed the client library and communications code that NCSA
Mosaic uses and created the conceptual framework within which large parts of
Mosaic reside. Many other people have contributed to
NCSA Mosaic's development by sending us bug reports and comments.
Where's the documentation?
NOTE: The documentation for version 2.0 is not yet complete. For now,
please refer to the following links:
Where can I find technical information?
Here is technical information on NCSA Mosaic for
X and the World Wide Web Project.
Is NCSA Mosaic supported?
Yes. For NCSA Mosaic for X support, please send email to
mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu; we will respond to the best of our
ability. Macintosh-related questions should be directed to
mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu, and Microsoft Windows questions to
mosaic-win@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
