Re: Netscape the Big Win

[Ray Cromwell <rjc@clark.net>]

> 
> on Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:24:31 -0800  Douglas Barnes wrote:
> > available on Suns running Solaris 2.4 and PCs running Windows NT.
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Are there any plans to port JAVA to a REAL operating system?  Support
> for crypto needs to be ubiquitous to work.  Start with the fanatics
> (Linux and FreeBSD) and the other platforms will quickly follow (often
> ported by the afore mentioned fanatics so that the departmental server
> can run the same code as their desktop box :-).

  Go to http://java.sun.com and join the java porting list and also the
linux porting list. Suffice it to say, it is being worked on by many people.
The next port coming out will be for the Mac. Linux will probably be right
after that. The problem with porting HotJava (and Java) is that it uses
Solaris Threads, and if your operating system doesn't have a lightweight
process/thread library, you have to port one, or write your own. Secondly,
HotJava uses OpenWindows, and third, it relies on some Solaris specific
memory mapping tricks. (I've heard, there's also some endian problems)

-Ray