On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Linus G Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dmitry M. Golubovsky wrote: > > >From: "Dmitry M. Golubovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I'm new in this list. As I found at the JOS site there exist some separate > >projects to develop native kernels for Java OS (probably such an OS cannot > >exist without some native part). Has someone tried to build a Java-oriented OS > >as a combination of some existing Linux kernel (maybe patched) and one of > >known free JVMs (Kaffe for example)? > > There have been discussions in that direction. > I, for one, don't know of such a project. One could, for instance, have a JOS > prototype running on top of Linux or RTEMS. But that's not JOS's mission. A few people over recent years have worked with Kaffe and RTEMS. As I recall, Erik Bruchez even demonstrated a working system a few years ago. I don't think this was ever merged with Kaffe though. :( Doing such a port would give you an embedded Java on about 10 CPU families with a relatively low investment of effort. --joel Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985 _______________________________________________ Kernel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jos.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
