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| Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments
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By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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| Posted by Ben Hern on 20-Sep-2004 17:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (Don Cox):
"Tao's technology is not Java, and it was invented long before Java. It is basically an intermediate byte-code, as in UCSD Pascal, which is compiled to the native code for each platform when it is loaded from disk to RAM. There are two modules for each platform, one for the CPU and the other for every other feature of the platform."
Another part of there plaform might be, but their technology is definitely Java too. I think this was what noggin was talking about, i.e. the part that AmigaDE is based on. See their website:
Tao's intent®, Java™ Technology Edition Now a Sun Authorized Virtual Machine
"Over several years intent has been developed by Tao's engineering team for use in connected devices in home and mobile networks. The emphasis has been on creating an open, comprehensive, customizable, compact, fast and binary portable multimedia solution incorporating advanced capability in streaming audio and video. At its heart is Tao's Sun Authorized Virtual Machine and libraries. Today, the software is being deployed in a broad range of markets including digital games, home networking, digital television, automotive and phones."
You also said:
"Java does run on it, and Tao claim a particularly efficient implementation, but so do other languages such as C. Or you can code in Tao's own macro-assembler."
I think you are confusing the other part of "intent", where you can compile the Java language to their proprietary byte code. That is quite different. Their Java VM is an entirely different thing... and it certainly would not get licensed by Sun if it were not a compliant and complete Java solution. |
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