Re: A92: Java?
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Re: A92: Java?
First off, I think that Java would be an excellent port project.
(Its difficulty would definitly prove someone's skill of programming.)
Secondly, there should be a way to do Java on the TI-92.
You would not have to impliment the entire Java VM to the TI92.
Of course, color support would be limited to whatever grayscale
you want to add. There is a lot of the 30MB that would not be
needed or stuff that CAN'T be implimented. I admit that 500k
is not enough room for a good Java. And interpreted code would
make the 10MHz chip seem even slower. I think that what someone
should do is write a Java compiler for Motorola 68000 Machine
code. This would eliminate the need for an interpreter. Of course
some version of the Java VM would still have to be created.
Unless someone can see a way to create "stand-alone" programs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Taylor <rjt29@cam.ac.uk>
To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: A92: Java?
>Andrew Kenneth Bishop wrote:
>>
>> This may be a long stretch, but with the TI92+ there
>> wouldn't be as much of a memory problem, so has anyone tried
>> porting Java to the TI-92? I know it wouldn't be quite that
>> easy b/c of the major differences in the TIOS from other OS
>> such as Win95, MacOS, XWin, etc. But just curious if anyone
>> has tried this.
>
>
>1) Xwin not an OS.
>
>3) Java is ~30 MB of code...
> just the class libraries alone (which you *always* need) takes up 9MB
>
>2) 68000 pretty damm slow as for a procoessors fors - consider it
>probably runs about 1/200th of the speed of your P120 and think how fast
>java runs on *that*..
>
>3) how would you go about supporting Java's colour support....
>
>the list goes on.....
>
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