Is There Anything Happening on the MAJC Front?

gabbarsingh sent this in via punchcard: "What's happening at Sun on the MAJC front? They haven't released anything new on that. The first samples were promised in first half of 2000." MAJC (pronounced "magic"), stands for Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing, and according to EDTN is the only hardware java implementation that combines both multithreading and multiprocessing. It seems that "Java on a Chip" solutions are more commonplace now, than they were when Rockwell released the first, back in 1997. Might the promise of code that you can "Write Once, Run Anywhere" soon become reality, now that there is an actual platform on which it can run (rather than piggybacking on other platforms via JVMs)?

Perl CPU?

[cpeterso]

Isn't it strange that Java the Write-Once-Run-Anywhere(tm) Technology is plaqued with portability problems, yet Perl has no problem running on disparate OS and CPU platforms? Why isn't Larry Wall working on a PerlCPU(tm) to create market lock-in and address Perl's portability woes?

Huh? Madge who?

[JamesOfTheDesert]

MAJC (pronounced "magic"), stands for Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing

You're off to a bad start when you have to tell people how to pronounce some cute-but-contrived name for a technology.

Uhh..

[Dancin_Santa]

Might the promise of code that you can "Write Once, Run Anywhere" soon become reality, now that there is an actual platform on which it can run (rather than piggybacking on other platforms via JVMs)?

Isn't the whole point of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" to eschew becoming locked into a single platform?

Dancin Santa

Ajile

[ActiveScott]

See www.systronix.com and www.Ajil.com. They have some very usable embedded java micro processors.

Embedded Programing Cult of Culture

[selectspec]

Embedded Programing is ruled by C. Only just recently are we starting to see some C++ creep into this sacred forbiden zone. Embedded Programers live in a special culture all to their own. They don't mix with the rest of the world and they hold true to the standards set out in the begining. Ever notice that most embedded programers are like in their late 40's and late 50's! These guys know that when it comes to embedded systems, the fucking language you program in is irrelevant, so you might as well chug along with what you know. Even if Java were able to increase its Realtime abilities, extend direct memory control to the engineer etc, I doubt these guys would ever abandon their beloved C/C++.