george,
> It's a shame that you didn't have a different Mac...
nah... not really. support for ppc beos is dropping off and
will likely be gone soon.
>It looks to me like the BeOS transition to the Intel platform
>is well underway.
oh yeah, that's been together for a while now.
in case you don't know, they used to be called the "media OS".
they were actually in the business of producing an alternative
os.
about a year ago (forgive me, my memory stinks), they had
a "focus shift". they say they are no longer an os company,
instead they are an "internet appliance" company.
(see
www.be.com if interested)
they've got a trimmed down version of beos called beia to run
on these internet appliances. it'll be on the new eVilla from
Sony.
beos is now considered the development environment for beia.
beia has something called personal java built into it. i suppose
the next step was/is to put java2 into beos---which i am, of
course, very excited about.
i don't know what other alternative os's support java2. i'd be
curious about amiga... i don't even know *what* they produce
now.
i'd also be interested in this "JavaOS". i've seen mention of
it in the java whitepapers but don't really know what it is,
if you can buy it, what it runs on... ?
i also saw something about Sun making java microchips that run
java programs in hardware (Java Real Machine as opposed to
Java Virtual Machine). any idea what state of affairs these
are in?
whoops, guess i'm getting a little off the original thread's
topic.
