[ Quoting David Bowerman to Scott Little ] 
 DB> Scott, the only CPUs that I am aware of that are currently available
 DB> that directly interpret Java bytecodes are Sun's Java chips.
Of course.
 DB> other chips require a CPU/OS specific interpreter or compiler
Yep
 DB> there is considerable work going on to tweak those interpreters and/or
 DB> compilers to make them faster, this has diddly squat to do with making
 DB> Java itself machine specific
Compare C and assembler for the 80x86
Compare Java and assembler for the same
There isn't much more CPU specific than asm, and it's the fastest. Unless
the compiler is VERY inteligent, nothing from any language can compile to
be as good as a raw asm program.
 SL> It's only called Win97 when people don't know/couldn't be bothered
 SL> typing out MEMPHIS. Ask MS, they have never heard of Windows 97,
 SL> Windows 98 or WindowsNinetySomething.
 DB> Really?  All those magazine stories about Win97 didn't exist?
If they called it by the correct name from the start, no-one would know
what was going on. They would have called it Win97 to get everyone's 
attention.
Regards,
 - Scott
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