From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 10:13:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27707 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27699 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02630; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:09:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602061809.LAA02630@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: hotjava To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:09:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602060319.WAA11344@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Feb 5, 96 10:19:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Well, due to Netscape's inability to get Java support out the door for BSDI > with their 2.0 release, I was thinking of looking into JDK source code and > porting, and I remembered something about this. Has anyone gotten this > working, and/or gotten pthreads fully working? Are we going to have a > multithreading kernel soon? Just curious about some of these issues... A multithreading kernel isn't strictly necessary. There is an alpha versio of a Linux and NetBSD port that the authors won't (can't?) distribute because of the licensing. Did you get the "Kaffe" announcement of a JAVA replacement with some interesting translate-to-machine-code-on-the-fly features? It was on the -announce list today. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.