Re: JVM For windows

From: Mark Preston (usenet_at_mpreston.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:57:48 +0000

Fountain of knowledge wrote:

> Well, thanks Sun Microsystems. Because of the court case against
> Microsoft, I can no longer download and install the Microsoft Java
> Virtual Machine for Windows 2000 SP4.
>
You can "no longer download" the Microsoft JVM because there NEVER WAS a
Microsoft JVM - Microsoft broke Java and their "JVM" never was actually
Java at all.
>
> [snip] The Sun JVM is a bigger install, slower and the worst of all,
> you have to have that pathetic icon in the system
> tray permanently just to use Java.
>
The Sun JRE is much SMALLER (not larger), FASTER (not slower) and you
can just turn off the Java Console if you don't want the icon in the
system tray.
>
> [snip] My only option now is to install the Sun JVM just to
> view some websites. Well, I don't fucking want to!
>
No it isn't. You can download from Sun, IBM, BEA (Weblogic) and a number
of other sources, all of which offer a true Java JRE.
>
> [snip] I want the smallest download without the
> clutter. Only MS provided that. The MS download was 5mb. The Sun
> one is 14mb.
>
The Sun provided JRE for Java 1.4.02 is precisely 1.413 Mb. I make that
a whole TEN TIMES SMALLER than the Microsft version.

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