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.