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The solution of the day would have been to put a .jar on each disc and it would have been a nightmare, I think.
by smolder 2y ago
The solution of the day would have been to put a .jar on each disc and it would have been a nightmare, I think.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoThere's a JAR on every SIM and payment card and it works fine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoThat Java runs on the SIM, not on the AP. The DVD equivalent would be the Java running on the DVD itself, but a DVD is an inert plastic and aluminium sandwich. And even if it looks portable, it’s not. In practice there’s just enough quirks that code written for one Java Card won’t reliably install and run on all others. Actually portable Java Card that would work like DVD codecs would need to work didn’t come until eSIMs, which is decades later.
- bobdvb 2y agoSIM cards are doing relatively basic transactional crypto functions, not processing many Mbps of data in real time.
- everfrustrated 2y agoPretty sure bluray did something like this - some sort of java app definition that gets executed to display menus and the like.
- smolder 2y agoFor menus it makes sense. For compression schemes I see a lot of downside, mainly inefficiency of hardware.