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"System call semantics?"

"System call semantics?"

Posted May 18, 2006 16:49 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: "System call semantics?" by pimlott
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

Actually, Java's threading semantics have always been relatively underspecified, specifically to make it possible to have Jave implementations on a wide variety of underlying operating systems.

Remember Java on Macintosh OS 9? ;-)


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"System call semantics?"

Posted May 18, 2006 16:58 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535) [Link]

Remember Java on Macintosh OS 9? ;-)
checkmate, you win

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