Re: bigger, sexier, more phly debian...

[Martin Alonso Soto Jacome <masoto@uniandes.edu.co>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Ean Schuessler wrote:

> Unfortunatly Java is not GPL'd. For that matter I don't think that native
> graphics services are actually provided by Java, it just calls the existing
> local windowing system, but I'm probably wrong.

I think Java can be ported to whatever graphics system is available.  It 
would even be possible to develop a X protocol extension allowing client 
apps to send Java programs to the X server in order to be executed 
directly there.  That would make execution of Java very efficient, even 
across very slow connections, and wouldn't need a complete rework of X, 
only a protocol extension that can be added without modifying the big and 
complex core of the windowing system.

Regards,

M. S. 
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Martin A. Soto J.                           Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes      masoto@uniandes.edu.co