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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
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Subject: Re: HotJava 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:01:42 BST."
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 01:35:46 EDT
From: Christopher Provenzano  <proven@MIT.EDU>
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> On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Timothy Moore wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone still working on porting HotJava to FreeBSD?  I see that a
> > version of pthreads that supports FreeBSD has been released.  I might
> > be interested in taking this on; in a previous life I was a Common
> > Lisp implementor and have some appreciation of the issues.
> 
> I just looked at this new pthreads implementation and it is a bit thin.  
> It won't compile on FreeBSD without hacking, it doesn't address the need 
> for an MT-safe C library and it is infected with the GPL.
> 
> A far better pthreads implementation can be found in
> sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads.  This has MT-safe io, sockets, stdio and
> compiles out of the box on FreeBSD and many other architectures.  The
> author (Chris Provenzano) is sometimes around on this list and sometimes
> threatens to merge it into FreeBSD's source tree.  Any news on that,
> Chris? 

I've been busy, but I'm still working on it.

CAP