Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 01:35:40 -0700 From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-ports@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull? Message-ID: <199510130835.AA03397@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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Terry: > > > 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. I suppose a thread library, like SusOS has, is likely necessary, but I really doubt kernel multithreading is necessary. Any bets? -pete
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