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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!not-for-mail From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD adopt Java like everybody else? Date: 3 May 1996 22:59:08 -0700 Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4mernc$d8j@sidhe.memra.com> References: <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com> <4m8abh$7tf@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.memra.com In article <4m8abh$7tf@samba.rahul.net>, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote: >In <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com> michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) writes: > >>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?960430.osvendorsjava.htm > > The new licenses from JavaSoft, the division of Sun Microsystems Inc. > that develops and markets Java technology, will allow the companies > to embed the Java Virtual Machine and Java class libraries in their > operating systems.... >Unless they have redefined the word 'embed' recently, the above fragment >suggests that Sun, SGI, and IBM have all gone stark, raving mad and they >are planning to make their OS kernels into Java interpreters. I figure that, as usual, the journalists *HAVE* redefined the word "embed" and that they mean the same thing as "embedding" curses or grep into FreeBSD. In other words, it's either a library or a utility included with the O/S. So, is FreeBSD going to join the crowd? -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com