"There have been a few attempts to overcome dependency problems: SuSE with their YOU (Your Online Update)..." YOU stands for YaST Online Update, where YaST, being the SuSE setup tool, stands for "Yet another Setup Tool".
Well, that's a very good question, isn't it. I personally attended a seminar at IBM's Milwaukee offices in October of last year where a rep from the Toronto labs told me, looking straight into my eyes, that there would be a Linux version of VAJava 3.5 by the end of the year. Liar, liar, your pants are on fire. I have lost whatever respect I may once have had for IBM, and I go back to the days of BAL and punched cards. They have lost some serious business here.
I not only read it, I read dozens of messages pertaining to it on the IBM VAJava newsgroups. The gist of it is that WSW will be the greatest thing since sliced bread... when it is available, "later this year". Oh, and guess what, it will run on Linux. Can you say OS/2?
Why is there no current version of VisualAge Java for Linux? Your VisualAge web site says "In addition to the existing support for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 98, Linux will be the platform that developers can rely on for premier tooling from IBM", and yet the only available version is 3.02, which is not feature-complete and only supports Java 1.1 and Swing 1.0. There was no 3.5, and an IBM rep just confirmed on your newsgroups that there will be no 4.0. Why not?
Not true, you can add up to several meg in a RAM expander mounted in the cartridge port (which requires special software that swaps memory in and out using DMA), or you can plug in a SuperCPU, which contains a 20 MHz 65816 CPU that takes over the machine and is capable of using up to 16M of its own (16-bit addressable) memory.
As others have noted, that article is hard to get to. Is it talking about The Wave? This is a web browser by Maurice Randall, who wrote the GEOS upgrade called Wheels. You can read about it at http://www.ia4u.net/~maurice/gbrowse/wave.html
GEOS, for those who don't know, is a GUI operating system for the Commodore 64.
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"There have been a few attempts to overcome dependency problems: SuSE with their YOU (Your Online Update)..." YOU stands for YaST Online Update, where YaST, being the SuSE setup tool, stands for "Yet another Setup Tool".
Well, that's a very good question, isn't it. I personally attended a seminar at IBM's Milwaukee offices in October of last year where a rep from the Toronto labs told me, looking straight into my eyes, that there would be a Linux version of VAJava 3.5 by the end of the year. Liar, liar, your pants are on fire. I have lost whatever respect I may once have had for IBM, and I go back to the days of BAL and punched cards. They have lost some serious business here.
I not only read it, I read dozens of messages pertaining to it on the IBM VAJava newsgroups. The gist of it is that WSW will be the greatest thing since sliced bread... when it is available, "later this year". Oh, and guess what, it will run on Linux. Can you say OS/2?
Why is there no current version of VisualAge Java for Linux? Your VisualAge web site says "In addition to the existing support for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 98, Linux will be the platform that developers can rely on for premier tooling from IBM", and yet the only available version is 3.02, which is not feature-complete and only supports Java 1.1 and Swing 1.0. There was no 3.5, and an IBM rep just confirmed on your newsgroups that there will be no 4.0. Why not?
Not true, you can add up to several meg in a RAM expander mounted in the cartridge port (which requires special software that swaps memory in and out using DMA), or you can plug in a SuperCPU, which contains a 20 MHz 65816 CPU that takes over the machine and is capable of using up to 16M of its own (16-bit addressable) memory.
As others have noted, that article is hard to get to. Is it talking about The Wave? This is a web browser by Maurice Randall, who wrote the GEOS upgrade called Wheels. You can read about it at http://www.ia4u.net/~maurice/gbrowse/wave.html GEOS, for those who don't know, is a GUI operating system for the Commodore 64.