On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Rick Graham wrote:
> We're tossing around the idea of creating a linux JAVA port that does
> not require X. There would be several advantages to such a system, thin
> clients for one, Bill Gates would probably lose sleep over it, theres
> another (hehe).
> 
> Since you are the experts I was hoping to get some useful feedback
> regarding this idea.
> 
> Do you think it would be a prohibitivly enormous undertaking to make the
> vm work with svgalib?

Sun's JavaStation network computer doesn't use X.  Instead it
uses the Tiny AWT peers.  See the directory sun/awt/tiny in the
JDK 1.1 sources.  Basically, all you would have to do is to
implement all of the native methods declared in Tiny AWT in terms
of svgalib function.

However, I don't believe that any work has been done to allow
Tiny to support Java 2.  This would be the most difficult part.

Cheers,
Nigel

Nigel Gamble                                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mountain View, CA, USA.                         http://www.nrg.org/


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