[Coco] Anyone Interested In CoCo Emulator On Android?

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:48:45 am Steve Bjork did opine:

>   I've never liked Java and Oracle, the new owners of Java (because they
> bought Sun) has a lawsuit against Google for the way they have done Java
> on Android.
> 
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet#The_2010_Oracle_-_Google_lawsui
> t
> 
> Google at the same time calls the suit "attack on /Java/ community"
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28mobile_device_platform%29#cite_
> note-161> and will fight it. (for years.)
> 
> If Oracle keeps this up, Java could be a dead language someday.
> 
I am on numerous linux lists, and the iced-tea substitutes for java are 
getting renewed efforts to remove any incompatibilities.  And are getting 
quite good.  Java itself, with Ellison at the wheel of a bus full of 
lawyers, will only serve to officiate at its funeral.

> I should point out...
> While Android applications are written in Java, there's no Java Virtual
> Machine in the platform and Java byte code is not executed. Java classes
> get recompiled into Dalvik executable and run on Dalvik virtual machine.
> Dalvik is a specialized virtual machine designed specifically for
> Android and optimized for battery-powered mobile devices with limited
> memory and CPU. Android does not support J2ME, like some other mobile
> operating systems.
> 
> Steve Bjork
> 
> On 9/8/2010 8:57 PM, Brad Grier wrote:
> > I'd like to see Mocha running on my HTC Incredible. Since Android apps
> > are written in Java (albeit with a different UI library), I don't
> > think it would be too difficult. Anyone else with an Android device
> > and a Color Computer fetish? I'm excited about dusting off the Mocha
> > code...it's been a while.
> 
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