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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: JAVA for BSDI Netscape
Date: 16 Feb 1996 15:10:42 GMT
Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies
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pei@engr.csulb.edu (Regis C. Pei) wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>     Has anybody heard anything about support of JAVA applets in future 
>releases of Netscape?  Of all the OS Netscape is available on, BSDI seems to be 
>the only one without JAVA support.  Does anybody know why?

It's hard to port JAVA without a threads library.

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Mike Hancock
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