Re: [cobalt-developers] Java for RaQ 2?

[Gordon Garb <gordon.garb@xxxxxxx>]

> uhm,
> don't take me wrong please, but what's the point that JVM is not 
> possible with this sort of byte-ordering, but would be possible on 
> big-endian? (finally that's the difference, right?) - or simply too 
> old too slow too XXX - not supported?

Harald,
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the byte-ordering was the reason 
why the JVM is not available for the RaQ 2. I just wanted to indicate 
that even is there might be a JVM for MIPS processors, it would have 
to be for the little-endian MIPS cpus that Cobalt used in our first 
two generations of products. A JVM that
worked on an SGI MIPS box would not work on the Cobalt server appliances.

Sun does not make a full J2SE for the little-endian MIPS processors. 
There may be some Java support
for those processors from the J2ME space, but I am not familiar with 
all those technologies.

Best Regards,
/Gordon

> btw. as MIPS still provides those CPUs for mobile appliances (at 
> least the same instructionset-base) wouldn't it make sense to have a 
> JVM anyway?
>
> tia
> hk
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:28:15 -0700, Gordon Garb <gordon.garb@xxxxxxx> 
> wrote to cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > Unfortunately, because the RaQ 2 uses the little-endian MIPS
> > processor, there is no
> > Sun JVM for it.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > /Gordon
>
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