Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Java in OS? | Date | Thu, 02 May 1996 09:14:31 -0400 | From | "Michael K. Johnson" <> |
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Buddha Buck writes: >> Is there any possibility of Linux also doing this? It'd really be neat if >> Linux could be first-on-the-market. > >I for one certainly hope not. Or, at least, not in the kernel. It >seems to me to be both a waste of kernel space and an otherwise >incredibly bad idea anyway. > >On the otherhand, a Java demon might be an interesting idea. >Especially if it was a multithreaded Java demon.
No, not a daemon. Just make Java an executable file format that uses an interpreter. Essentially the same as a shell script, except that a few lines of magic get added that recognize a Java app and call the interpreter. Just one more executable file format that gets interpreted in user space.
michaelkjohnson
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