[351] in java-interest
Re: Java for Solaris 2.4 x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Richer)
Thu Jun 15 19:36:35 1995
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 16:05:18 -0700
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: richer@island.com (Mark Richer)
>I believe there's a Mac port in progress already;
Yes, that's true -- I just hope it will be released soon. My understanding
is that there is only one contractor working on it. How many times have I
heard that "the Mac version" will be released shortly only to see years go
by. A recent example that comes to mind is PowerBuilder. I was at a seminar
18 months ago and PowerSoft said the Mac version would be released shortly
and it still isn't!
> Win3.1 and Mac ports should be complementary
I heard James Gosling say at a meeting that Sun was *not* doing a Win 3.1
version because it was much easier to do it in NT/95 because of
multithreading support. I assume NetScape will do a Win 3.1 version when
their "Hot Java capable" browsers are released, but at this point, it's
vaporware.
>since both OS's have (or more importantly lack) roughly the same
>capabilities -- make it work on one and most of the hard work is done
>for the other.
The Mac has the Thread Manager, but I assume that a Win 3.1 implementation
could be done using a roughly equivalent mechanism.
- Mark
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