Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:11:40 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From:	Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT ultra7 DOT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] JavaOS for DOS & OD
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

> > It's Sun's Rescue project, which is supposed to give new life to
> > `obsolete' computer hardware. However, they've got a very odd idea
> > of what's obsolete
> > ---
> > it only works on 486's and up with, I think, 16MB, but I could be wrong.
> 
> It's actually 486 and 4 MB RAM.  Not really good enough from my
> perspective either.  What Sun or somebody needs to do is put a JavaPU on
> an ISA card; however, nobody has talked about that yet as far as I know.

Sun actually is designing that thing. It's called the JavaBlaster 
(Creative Labs is gonna hate it :-).
IIRC, retail price should be about $50, launching in August?

> 
> > The OpenDOS multitasker is totally useless for a Java implementation.
> > It's too heavy-weight for simple threads.
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmm.  Perhaps that's something for the Wish List.  If OD
> could do Java closer to natively than any other 386/486 OS, I
> think that could give OD a huge usefulness in six months or so.
> Less, depending on when Corel for Java is released.
> 
> Jonathan E. Brickman   River City Computing, Inc.  (913) 232-6663
> http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity     brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
> This is life.  Take it by the whip.
> 


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