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Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull?
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> 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.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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