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As long as "anywhere" meant Windows and Solaris. There were a lot more commercial operating systems in those days (eg. Tru64, SCO, HP-UX, OpenVMS, AIX, Linux, Q
by nineteen999 8y ago
As long as "anywhere" meant Windows and Solaris. There were a lot more commercial operating systems in those days (eg. Tru64, SCO, HP-UX, OpenVMS, AIX, Linux, QNX, Classic MacOS etc), many or most of which didn't get a JVM/JRE until much later.
I wonder if any significant amount of money was ever made from selling Java applets. I can't remember the last time I saw one in the wild.
- rsynnott 8y agoJava 1.0 was available for MacOS. But yeah, platform support wasn’t great for a while.
- nineteen999 8y agoAfter 1.0 even the Mac lagged pretty significantly. http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1997/jw-07-javamac.html http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1997/jw-07-javamac.html