Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 14 May 1996 20:04:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: Java in OS? |
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steveo@mailhost.nmt.edu (Steven L. Anderson) wrote on 03.05.96 in <199605031442.IAA01775@lotus.nmt.edu>:
> If we are going to start talking about kernel daemons for languages,
We aren't. We're talking about support for new executable formats, specifically those that need interpreters.
> how about coming up with a generic style for it. While the original
We already have it. We just need to use it.
> What are the advantages of having such a creature as part of > the kernel anyway?
The same as the advantages of being able to exec() shell scripts.
There's one "interpreted" executable format that we could probably support right now: the MS-DOS .EXE format. We'd need to invoke dosemu as "interpreter".
MfG Kai
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