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Hi,
My knee-jerk reaction is that much of BlackBox is built on top of
Microsoft operating system calls which restricts where BlackBox can run.
It was Oberon Microsystems Inc early decision to make BlackBox have
the look and feel of the host operating system rather than Dr. Wirth's
decision to have a fixed user interface that didn't chance from platform
to platform.
Hence the GPCP-Java Byte Code Compiler would be problematic for BlackBox
attempting to emmulate Microsoft. But then again, it is claimed that
BlackBox is portable (but how portable?).
Just my opinion.
-Doug
Jürgen Rolshoven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> last summer Oberon Mircrosystems reported that the BB-Compiler would
> become Open Source. This sparked off intensive discussion. I do not
> know wheather usage of the GPCP-Java Byte Code Compiler project at QUT
> (John Gough, Paul Roe et al.) has been considered. This would of
> course also entail substituting/porting the Blackbox Componenent
> Sources to Java - however, on a very elementary level.
>
> I would hierwith like to ask opinion on this possibility.
>
> Jürgen Rolshoven
>
> Linguistic Data Processing - University of Cologne
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