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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.conterra.com!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!nuki.NetUSE.de!white.schulung.netuse.de!usenet From: kris@schulung.netuse.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?=) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 2 May 1996 22:07:06 GMT Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4mbbma$ohc@white.schulung.netuse.de> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <NELSON.96Apr17101252@ns.crynwr.com> <3175DBD4.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <4l5f31$ijv@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <4l5ltp$4pa@dyson.iquest.net> <4lj3og$ct@complete.org> <4m3vs6$9je@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <4m6a2b$mql@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: black.schulung.netuse.de Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1996 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved. X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22904 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:912 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3637 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3480 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18621 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47860 ashelton@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (A Shelton) writes: [ Kernel Java ] >I'm sure linus is busy vomiting at the concept of putting a large, >untrusted non-vital system into the kernel. Isn't this roughly equivalent >to embedding a C compiler in the kernel? It is more like putting a BASIC interpreter into the kernel. Yuck. Kristian -- Kristian Koehntopp, Wassilystrasse 30, 24113 Kiel, +49 431 688897 Fachbegriffe der Informatik einfach erklaert, Teil 28: "... werden wir den Schutz Minderjaehriger in den Vordergrund stellen." == "Im Grunde weiss ich genausowenig ueber die ganze Sache wie meine Waehler, aber verbieten bringt mehr Stimmen."