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From: richard@interactive.co.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD adopt Java like everybody else?
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:09:14 GMT
Organization: Oz
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In article <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com>,
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?960430.osvendorsjava.htm

I fear you are a victim of hype.  The article in question appears to
be a press-release rehash containing nothing but buzzwords.

>Will you also be integrating Java with FreeBSD just
>like everybody else? 

Could you explain just what "integrating Java" with an operating
system means?

As far as I can see, Java is a programming language which already runs
under FreeBSD.

-- Richard
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