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In the 1990s it looked very much as if desktop and server heterogeneity would be the norm. That you'd pick between alternatives like Solaris on SPARC, HP-UX on
by jacques_chester 6y ago
In the 1990s it looked very much as if desktop and server heterogeneity would be the norm. That you'd pick between alternatives like Solaris on SPARC, HP-UX on PA-RISC, Irix on MIPS, Windows on Alpha / MIPS / x86 / PowerPC, MacOS on PowerPC, OS/2 on PowerPC / x86 etc etc.
The designers of Java, as well as software community at large, had dealt with the pain of moving large codebases across platforms and so the WORA promise was very appealing.
- ObscureScience 6y agoIt would have been cool if Limbo/Dis would had gotten more attention at the time. To me it looks like a more promising base, and was released the same year as Java. I can't at the moment find under what terms it was released back then, but it's free software now.