[HECnet] Getting openvms going

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Nov 13 18:14:29 PST 2019


On 11/13/19 8:50 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>    Well as Android is Linux under the hood, and iOS and MacOS are UNIX
>> under the hood, that makes those numbers look a bit different.
> 
> I thought Android was written in Java or maybe Javascript.

  No.  Android is a Linux kernel with a UI layer atop that.  Android
*apps* are written in Java.

> Jim Gosling
> wrote Java and there is JRE for (at one time) solaris and there is for
> Windows and Linux.

  There are still JREs (and JDKs) for Solaris on both SPARC and x86_64.
 And for Linux on x86, x86_64, ARM, and everything else.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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