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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd 
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 20:18:42 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library instead of using the NetBSD
> effort toget JAVA running (they also heavily modified JAVA to *use*
> a user space threads, BTW) seems like NIH.

Hardly!  Building a FreeBSD thread-safe library gives you a
thread-safe library and JAVA.  Implementing NetBSD support to give you
JAVA gives you only JAVA.  I don't think it takes a rocket scientist
to figure out that "1 + 1 = 2" and "1 + 0 = 1"

					Jordan