USCD Pascal never supported graphics. Indeed, I think it was even more primitive than that, wasn't it... something about no random-access files or something? (I hated Pascal at school - Macintoshes and Mac Pascal, which was very primitive - must have been the very worst development environment on the market at the time!)
USCD was a virtual teletypewriter, so to speak - it was based on 70s technology - as opposed to Java, which is a full virtual machine, with graphics, printing, sound, etc. (unfortunately it took 'till 1.2 aka 2 before printing actually worked, but anyway...) There's no comparison.
Obviously. There is no element of charity involved here. Microsoft clearly hopes to get its money back, either directly or indirectly. Steve Ballmer once said quite openly that IE is not "free" (i.e. free beer) because it increases their market share indirectly. (I know, this is completely obvious, but just in case anyone didn't believe it)
The group are entirely correct that the government is, in effect, subsidising Microsoft in this way, even though naively it looks the other way around.
End corporate welfare! Something both libetarian socialists and libertarian capitalists should agree on:)
All of these distros are capable 1.1.x compliant VMs.
Um, get a clue. Only Kaffe is actually a full VM. Classpath isn't a VM and isn't compliant to anything because it isn't ready yet. JLint is clearly not a VM.
BTW, the dmoz directory has a more comprehensive listing of open source Java stuff than the FSF:
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USCD was a virtual teletypewriter, so to speak - it was based on 70s technology - as opposed to Java, which is a full virtual machine, with graphics, printing, sound, etc. (unfortunately it took 'till 1.2 aka 2 before printing actually worked, but anyway...) There's no comparison.
The group are entirely correct that the government is, in effect, subsidising Microsoft in this way, even though naively it looks the other way around.
End corporate welfare! Something both libetarian socialists and libertarian capitalists should agree on :)
Um, get a clue. Only Kaffe is actually a full VM. Classpath isn't a VM and isn't compliant to anything because it isn't ready yet. JLint is clearly not a VM.
BTW, the dmoz directory has a more comprehensive listing of open source Java stuff than the FSF:
http://dmoz.org/C omputers/Programming/Languages/Java/Open_Source/ (86 links - and that's just the open source links)