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Dear Tom,

>=20
> ...
> > > > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time.  Alpha is harder,=20
> > > > but certainly not impossible.
> > >
> > The limiting factor for Alpha is to find someone who can write the
> > native method invocations in Alpha assembler. This should=20
> be a day or
> > two work for someone who's proficient in Alpha assembler. I did some
> > of the groundwork (basic stuff) and wrote a little about it=20
> on my web
> > site (http://www.kjkoster.org/java/).
>=20
>   But that would just be for native method invocation. =20
> Wouldn't Hotspot
> would require considerable more work?  Not that I'm proposing any such
> thing for a discontinued architecture...  sparc64 would be interesting
> though.
>
Ah, yes. I keep forgetting. My statement was true in the time when 1.2.2 =
was the stable Java version. Please disregard my misinformed post.

Sparc64 would indeed be interesting. Porting HotSpot will prove hard =
even on that platform, if I must believe the post by Bill Huey. He =
worked on the HotSpot port for a while and found the code ... =
challenging. :)

    Kees Jan

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