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vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com

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Nov 29, 2009, 10:35:27 PM11/29/09
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I am so annoyed with all the little computers that can't run some simple
legacy app i've used forever.Someone should write a no-frils MSDOS for JAVA
that works everywhere.

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David Kerber

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Nov 30, 2009, 1:15:35 PM11/30/09
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In article <hevehv$gmn$2...@reader1.panix.com>,
vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com says...

> I am so annoyed with all the little computers that can't run some simple
> legacy app i've used forever.Someone should write a no-frils MSDOS for JAVA
> that works everywhere.

Let me know when you have it ready for testing; I'll be glad to give it
a workout for you...


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Nov 30, 2009, 2:16:31 PM11/30/09
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According to <vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com>:

> I am so annoyed with all the little computers that can't run some simple
> legacy app i've used forever.Someone should write a no-frils MSDOS for JAVA
> that works everywhere.

It already exists; it is called JPC. See:
http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/home_home.html


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vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com

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Nov 30, 2009, 9:52:08 PM11/30/09
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*+-http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/home_home.html

Way cool!

Roedy Green

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Dec 1, 2009, 3:44:57 PM12/1/09
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:35:27 +0000 (UTC),
vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>I am so annoyed with all the little computers that can't run some simple
>legacy app i've used forever.Someone should write a no-frils MSDOS for JAVA
>that works everywhere.

The problem is DOS presumes a 640K address space. Desktop Java will
not fit in that. Perhaps one of the stripped down Java's for cell
phones would. You might as well run these apps on a hand held unit.
They are getting pretty cheap.
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David Kerber

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Dec 1, 2009, 3:56:12 PM12/1/09
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In article <fuvah5l48ibd2l35c...@4ax.com>,
see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid says...

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:35:27 +0000 (UTC),
> vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote, quoted or indirectly
> quoted someone who said :
>
> >I am so annoyed with all the little computers that can't run some simple
> >legacy app i've used forever.Someone should write a no-frils MSDOS for JAVA
> >that works everywhere.
>
> The problem is DOS presumes a 640K address space. Desktop Java will
> not fit in that. Perhaps one of the stripped down Java's for cell
> phones would. You might as well run these apps on a hand held unit.
> They are getting pretty cheap.

He's not asking for java running on ms-dos, but rather a DOS emulator or
vm that will run on a java jvm.

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