robogeek wrote: > > The reason Sun "took over the port" for Windows is because Microsoft > broke the license agreement and wouldn't cooperate with Sun on the > terms of the contract.
The original Sun JDK was available on 32-bit Windows before Microsoft licensed Java. And every version of the Sun JDK is available on Windows. For a while, if you are on 32-bit Windows, you had a choice of which JVM to use: Sun's, Microsoft's, or IBM's. And browsers came with hard-coded embedded JVMs: Netscape Navigator used the Sun JVM and Microsoft IE used the Microsoft JVM. -- Weiqi Gao [email protected] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
