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I suppose thats like saying  did compaq give u a 486 with 32mb mem, or a
pentiun III/800mhz 512mb +32gig of 10k scsi III disks.

so did u get a "noname" baseball field, or a "ds20" ( smp/500mhz ) type of
baseball field to play upon. ( baseball players dont work do they? )

Since BSDi will no longer exist, how will u get license to distribute the
binaries ? How will u get the license for the JCK tests for the jdk.

Sorry to hit u with these questions when there appears to be some ( perceived
) turmoil with the porting efforts of the sun/jdk port - but how else will I
know the extent of the commitment by sun/bsdi/freebsd
/gat

BTW the TYA jit cant/doesn't work on freebds/i386 ?

Nate Williams wrote:

> > So what does the ballfield look like ?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  I've got an Compaq-donated
> Alpha, running the Compaq-provided Linux-JDK in emulation mode that
> should be adequate enough to bootstrap a FreeBSD-native port.
>
> However, if history is at all a reflection os what we expect, the native
> Alpha port will be the *slowest* JVM in the world w/out a JIT.  The
> Linux port is slower on the box than it is on my 486/66 box, so it's no
> speed daemon, that's for sure.
>
> > BTW i've noticed that blackdown has gotten involved with BSD et al.  Any
> > relationships ? any support from them ?
>
> This is news to me.
>
> > BTW#2 are u (java/port) still involved with BSDi.  what is their
> > relationship now-a-days?
>
> In a couple of weeks, there will be no BSDi.  It's not obvious at this
> time if there will be a relationship.
>
> Nate
>
> > > > > whats going on with the alpha port of the Sun/JDK stuff ?
> > > > > is there a port/effort?
> > >
> > > There is hardware in place to do the port, but so far no one has stepped
> > > up to the plate to do it.
> > >
> > > Nate
> >


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