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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 01:35:40 -0700
From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
Message-Id: <199510130835.AA03397@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
To: jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull?
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Terry:

   > 
   > > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port.
   > > Is this true?  Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a
   > > FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there.
   > 
   > Not so.  According to Linus (and Alan Cox), Linux has kernel multithreading.

I suppose a thread library, like SusOS has, is likely necessary, but I really doubt
kernel multithreading is necessary. Any bets?

-pete