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Re: Java for Solaris 2.4 x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Doane)
Fri Jun 16 01:56:58 1995
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 01:13:13 -0400
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: pdoane@pcnet.com (Patrick Doane)
>>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!
>
If it is true that there is only one contractor working on this, and that
Sun is looking for people to help in the effort, I would love to do what I
can to see Java running ASAP. This includes testing at any level during the
development cycle and coding.
>> 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
I brought up this point about a week ago but the Thread Manager only
operates in Pre-emptive mode on 68k Macintoshes only. There is also very
little you can do with the OS from a pre-emptive thread, so the Java port
will have to be done without the help of the Thread Manager. It was said
that this would be accomplished by checking at every branch or method call
if a yield should occur.
Patrick
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