Subject: Re: Java
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
From: Joshua D. Freier <jdf2026@osfmail.isc.rit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/15/1996 10:59:37
I believe that someone on the -current list said that they had almost 
completed the port for i386.

On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:

> > 	Anyone compile JDK?
> 
> That would be extremely nice, yeah.  But Sun's documents say Java
> tools are heavily threaded which makes it harder to port the tools to
> other platforms (or, was it just HotJava?).  NetBSD has pthread (POSIX
> thread) library in its source tree, but I'm not sure if it works on
> mac68k.  Even if it does, there's still the porting barrier from
> Solaris thread to POSIX thread.
> 
> I don't know.  I'd like to see JDK ported to NetBSD, but I don't have
> time to do the job myself... 
> 
> ken
> 

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