At 10:18 PM 8/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
>so what's so bad about (the) linux (ops-system) that it would not be
>sufficient?
Well, as in everything else, a purpose specific application can be
optimized in several areas (functionality, performance, resource usage,
etc). These optimizations are typically not available to a general purpose
tool. The same applies here, JOS is an OS specifically designed to run
java apps. Therefore we hope to gain advantages over a general OS which
happens to run java apps.
Of course, if you don't believe the underlying premise that specialized
tools outperform general purpose tools in their area of expertise, then its
pretty easy to argue that JOS is a useless exercise.
-iain
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