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From: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD adopt Java like everybody else?
Date: 3 May 1996 22:59:08 -0700
Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting - http://www.memra.com
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In article <4m8abh$7tf@samba.rahul.net>, Rahul Dhesi  <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote:
>In <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com> michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) writes:
>
>>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?960430.osvendorsjava.htm
>
>   The new licenses from JavaSoft, the division of Sun Microsystems Inc.
>   that develops and markets Java technology, will allow the companies
>   to embed the Java Virtual Machine and Java class libraries in their
>   operating systems....

>Unless they have redefined the word 'embed' recently, the above fragment
>suggests that Sun, SGI, and IBM have all gone stark, raving mad and they
>are planning to make their OS kernels into Java interpreters.

I figure that, as usual, the journalists *HAVE* redefined the word "embed"
and that they mean the same thing as "embedding" curses or grep into
FreeBSD. In other words, it's either a library or a utility included with
the O/S.

So, is FreeBSD going to join the crowd?


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