On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jaron Omega wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jaron Omega wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming this Mac is running NetBSD, I have been to
> >> dialpad.com and much to their misfortune, they do not
> >> provide unix/linux/<insert something here>ix java binaries.
> >
> >I thought the whole point of Java was that programs were
> >non-platform-dependent....
> 
> True, however this java has to access hardware.  In this case,
> probably a microphone, and a speaker.  That would/could be
> system/OS dependent.  If I'm totally wrong, cool beans..
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ugh.  Bad pun.  You're probably right.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if
that only worked on some Java VMs, as that's probably a non-standard
capability.


> let me know.
> But as far as their concerned or however they did it, their java
> code doesn't run on anything but MacOS or Windows.

Bummer.  :-)


David

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