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Re: RCX and Java
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 4 May 1999 21:20:39 GMT
Original-From: 
Fred Rose <rose@htcSTOPSPAM.honeywell.com>
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I see a surprising amount of interest in Java from the real time community,
although they seem to be leaning heavily away from the Sun JVM. I don't
know if that is driven by technical or licensing/cost concerns (or both).

Both, at least last year. Sun has recently gone to open source for the JVM
but previously their license fees were very expensive. Technically, there
are better choices wrt real-time/embedded issues.

Fred

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(...) MIT had their annual Lego robot race a month or so back, and they were ALL running Java. Not on RCXs though; they were using some kind of StrongARM running Linux as the programmable brick. You can make Java GC more deterministic by disabling (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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