The work of Finnish undergrads Kim Nyberg, Teemu Rantanen, Kati Suominen, and Kari Sydänmaanlakka at the Helsinki University of Technology.
Erwise 0.1 (or 1.0?) with running on Ubuntu 9.10.
Erwise was distributed as source and as binaries for Sun and Ultrix. The binaries show "Version 0.1 Alpha" in their info panels, whereas the compiled source's info panel shows "Version 1.0 Alpha." The binaries are from late March 1992, and the source is from July 25, making version progression plausible. On the other hand, the source directory unpacks to erwise-0.1, and the www-talk message announcing the only release is dated July 26 -- one day after the source code -- and refers to version 0.1.
Erwise builds most easily (in my experience) of all the truly ancient browsers besides LineMode, but it actually runs successfully on very few platforms (due possibly to Motif implementation issues that were reportedly a problem at the time).
Thanks to Roy at RT’s Free Soft we have source that builds and runs on Ubuntu 9.10 (2009) with Lesstif2 installed. (Ubuntu 9.10 runs GCC 4.4.1, and Roy's changes to the original source code are minimal, so this may build on any system that has GCC 4.x.)
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