Re: Mars Rover Controlled By Java
From: David Gay (dgay_at_lagaffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 01/22/04
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Date: 22 Jan 2004 08:49:52 -0800
hhc314@yahoo.com (Harry Conover) writes:
> First of all, obviously Java is not an operating system. It's an
> application programming language or tool targeted to the production of
> Internet (particularly browser applications). You also cannot
> implement a true operating system using Java as your programming
> language. If you doubt this, I'll hand you an 80586 chip with 128-Megs
> of online memory and chuckle as you try!)
A logical conclusion from this statement is that you can't write a "true"
(wonder what that means?) operating system in Lisp. Oops. Symbolics.
Hint: when you're doing that, you add a few well chosen extensions which
you use in the appropriate places.
-- David Gay dgay@acm.org
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