Message-Id: <199703131949.NAA10946@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:52:44 -0600 From: "Jonathan E. Brickman" Reply-To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] JavaOS for DOS & OD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > 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. > 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.