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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19010)12/10/1997 6:54:00 PM
From: David A. Lethe  Read Replies (1) of 42771
 
>JAVA machines are no different. Novell certainly has the engineering and the leadership.

Come on Paul, we both know that Java is very different. You are misleading people on this thread.

Those examples of how efficient and fast 8088s are, and how they supported 4 users are irrelevant....

Their code was compiled, not interpreted.
Their code could talk directly to the hardware, registers, device drivers.
Their code could control and disable interrupts when necessary.
Their code could even read and write to anywhere on the disk drive.
Their code was optimized for the hardware platform.
Their code could take advantage of shared O/S run-time libraries, shared memory, and could control disk caching and buffering.

You can't do any of the above with Java. (Yes there are some "compilers" out there, but the advantages are minimal).
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