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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 2 May 1996 22:07:06 GMT
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ashelton@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (A Shelton) writes:
[ Kernel Java ]
>I'm sure linus is busy vomiting at the concept of putting a large,
>untrusted non-vital system into the kernel. Isn't this roughly equivalent
>to embedding a C compiler in the kernel?

It is more like putting a BASIC interpreter into the kernel.
Yuck.

Kristian
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Fachbegriffe der Informatik einfach erklaert, Teil 28:
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"Im Grunde weiss ich genausowenig ueber die ganze Sache wie meine
 Waehler, aber verbieten bringt mehr Stimmen."