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Re: [TCLUG:6797] AlphaWorks JVM vs Blackdowns JVM for linux



At 11:41 AM 7/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
>> Can you point to a document that states this?  You can convert a Java
>> application over to native execution module using various tools but I had
>> not heard that the linux kernel has the ability to run Java bytecodes.
>
>Here is a document the shows how it was done in v2.0.x, but you can
>see from the code that the linux kernel doesn't exactly run Java
>bytecodes, but it can recognize java bytecodes and it has /usr/bin/java or
>/usr/bin/appletviewer run it for the user.
>
>http://metalab.unc.edu/navigator-bin/navigator.cgi?fs/binfmt_java.c
>
>I have no idea if this continues to be the case.

That's what I thought.  I would have been surprised to find that the kernel
has an embedded VM. 

Perry Hoekstra - dutchman@mn.uswest.net
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