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Re: Clarification Request: Win 32 port of Java or Hot Java?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim.Graham@Eng.Sun.COM)
Sun Jun 11 02:48:36 1995
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 23:15:06 -0700
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, wood@shicho.com
From: Jim.Graham@Eng.Sun.COM
David Wood asks:
> The recent thread in this mailing list regarding a potential Win 32 port
> left me with a fundamental question: Hot Java or Java?
>
> It seems to me that to take advantage of the 'jillions' of Windows 3.1 users
> in the world, only the browser need be ported, not the compiler itself.
Hi David,
Since the compiler is written in Java itself, then porting the interpreter
ports everything, the browser and the compiler included.
I'll leave the preemptive thread question to someone more familiar with
the Windows architectures.
...jim
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