Phoenix browser

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Phoenix was a vintage Desktop web browser and supported the Linux, Windows, MS-DOS operating systems. It was developed for about 2 years before being discontinued.

Phoenix was a well-known web browser and editor, created at the University of Chicago in the Biological Sciences Division, that was built on tkWWW version 0.9.

About Phoenix

Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1993
Discontinued 1995
Operating Systems Linux, Windows, MS-DOS
Device platform Desktop
Fork of tkWWW
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TkWWW#Phoenix

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