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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!sja From: sja@beta.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 20 Dec 95 09:59:49 Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <SJA.95Dec20095949@beta.hut.fi> References: <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4b30ic$bbv@felix.junction.net> <4b57ks$cpm@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.hut.fi In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 19 Dec 1995 02:22:20 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36243 alt.os.linux:6584 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5212 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30993 comp.os.linux.misc:76630 comp.os.linux.setup:33127 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10876 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1627 >michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) wrote: >] Touche! But you must admit that there IS a considerable quantity of >] published material about JAVA and that JAVA is somewhat less complex than >] a full-blown UNIX OS. > >I suggest attempting to port NetBSD and attempting to port JAVA >before you attempt to make that claim. I never attempted to port NetBSD but I did hack (Hot-)Java to run on Alpha/OSF. The problem with Java is not complexity. It's just written without any discernible thought given to portability (to put it mildly.) Smells a lot like NeWS (R.I.P.) (Not that I agree with the original mr. Dillon's "if there is no book about something it can't exist" theory.) ++sja