Nigel Gamble wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Michael Emmel wrote:
> > The next thing I did was write a driver in Java for the CirrusLogic 5430 and
> > got IFC then JFC running on it.
> > It wasn't much slower than Swing on top of a Windowing system and this was on
> > a fully interpeted.
> > I unrolled the blit loops and it helped a lot. I would not suggest you try
> > that at home but it showed me that
> > it was feasible with todays jit's its proabably usable.
> > If Sun ever decided to really release Hotspot.....
> > Swing + Hotspot+ low level graphics lib is probably faster than todays native
> > windowing systems.
> > But I don't think Sun wants Java to have it own windowing system.
>
> Actually, Java 1.1 does have it's own windowing system. It's called
> TinyAWT, which has a Java implementation of all the AWT peers. And
> it is used on a currently shipping Sun product - the JavaStation.
> The JavaStation uses Java for everything - including the windowing
> system, the OS (JavaOS) and all the device drivers.
And the Java Community referenced so often in ther new Open Source License
get's too play with how much of this cool code ??
Nada, Zip zilch ....
Oooh your not worth a 100 milliion dollar contract please go away...
What really funny is they had a big talk on thre web site about how to start a new
Java based comapany but
they keep the technology that matters hidden.
Mike
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