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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:53:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au, mark@quickweb.com, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ...
Message-ID:  <199702271553.KAA01146@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <13303.857054625@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 27, 97 06:43:45 am

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> 
> > Remember - users don't want to know half the time how things work. They
> > just want it to. :) If a user sees in a blurb that FreeBSD supports
> > executing java "binaries" when you add the jdk package/port, they'll say
> > "wow!".
> > 
> > Just another crazy idea.
> 
> Well, go do it and then come back with your proof-of-concept for us to
> comment on.  Anything else is just blue-sky dreaming, and we've got
> more than enough of that to last us through the remainder of this
> century. :-)
> 
Actually, writing the image activator for Java wouldn't be too hard,
and could be an excellent first-kernel-project.  I think that the
normal kernel hackers are totally overloaded as Jordan says, so any
volunteers?

John



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