[5251] in java-interest
Re: Ports to other Unix OS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tahmed)
Sat Feb 3 13:52:36 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:41:01 -0500 (EST)
From: tahmed <tahmed@on.bell.ca>
To: Ryan Bruner <rbruner@svr1.corpnet.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199602021851.NAA19189@svr1.corpnet.com>
> Are there any attempts to port Java to other Unix operating systems? It
> would seem to me that porting Java (at least the interpreter and compiler)
> to another Unix would be a lot easier to do than porting it to Windows
> and Mac. And yet, there appears to be no attempt at this point.
> Specifically, we need it ported to BSDi, or a Unix that can be run on
> an Pentium-based machine. I don't understand why it isn't even ported to
> Solaris x86.
Well what gets me is how long it's taking. Like the compiler is
nothing to port, it has nothing to do with generating machine specific
code, so it should be a straight compile on any platform.
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