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From: Alastair Mayer <axmayer@heron.uswc.uswest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.lang.java
Subject: Re: Java for BSDI
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 17:12:48 -0600
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Shawn McMahon wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> > This version of Kaffe will run on the following platforms:
> >
> >         i386 BSDI 2.1
> 
> Anybody tried it on 2.0.1?

Not me, but it took me all of about 10 minutes to make changes
to the configure files to port it to Sparc Solaris 2.0x. (I know,
the JDK is available already for that.  Just testing.)  It works
at least well enough to run Sun's Java compiler (which is written
in Java) and a few other classes I played with.

-- Alastair
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