Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:03:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Alexander <> | Subject | Re: Now, why didn't we think of this before? |
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> My 2 cents worth - > > JavaOS should be ported natively to whatever processor is of interest; you > shouldn't have an OS on top of a VM on top of a VM. Besides, for the client- > side applications that Java was intended for, it can stand alone; Linux is > not an end in itself, especially for those apps, and having a shell on top > of Java is not that useful. Linux's strength is being on the server side > of the network of Java clients, or running a combination of fast native code > and slow Java clients.
I wouldn't even mention this if Alan Cox weren't such a supporter of Linux-8086 because of "hack value." But you've got to admit that there's some very very miraculous hack value to running Linux in a Java VM under Linux. :)
Greg Alexander http://www.cia-g.com/~sietch/ ---- Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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