Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:38:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT dilu DOT ml DOT org>
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On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> > Java has a nice one.
> Yes, but it's still an *application* garbage collector, and not a *system* 
> one.

Not exactly... Java is actually a computer system. That's all the magic
there is to making it work on multiple platform: it is one in itself. Java
is a machine description, like you can have a machine description for a
x86 or a 680x0. Except that we have actual physical x86 and 680x0 to use,
where we have to create emulators (the Java VMs, Virtual Machines) to run
the Java code. So in fact, the Java GC is a system-wide GC, except that
for the moment, most VMs run without any real operating system, just the
bare application... :-)

Pierre Phaneuf