Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Like ten years ago. I tried Solaris x68 about a year after it came out, 
>> and went back to Windows when I found out it *didn't support Java.* WTF?
> 
>   I'm not completely sure if you are aware or not, but that kind of
> sentence sounds like you were bashing Solaris.

You said "quite some time ago."  I clarified that means "at least ten 
years."  That's all.

No, it was just a WTF, since Sun created Java, but supported it on MS's 
operating system before they supported it on their own.

Had Sun not created Java specifically to get people away from Windows, 
it wouldn't have been a WTF.

>   (Or perhaps you are just evil and do that on purpose, and when someone
> starts defending it you point out that you weren't really attacking the
> current Solaris, but just a 10yo one...)

Um, no. I wasn't bashing Solaris at all. I was pointing out that (1) 
yes, it's been on Intel chips at least 10 years, (2) I tried it, and (3) 
still remember how surprised I was that Sun supported Java better on the 
competitor's OS than their own.

Had I not actually been developing Java for a living at the time, I 
probably wouldn't have cared.

I think you read way more "bashing" into most of my statements at this 
point than I intend.  It's merely conversation.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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