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In message <is0vhm$ha$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> The funny thing, is that Java when it came out, was supposed to
> solve all these differences by putting a virtual OS between the
> application and the OS, this way one writes to this one common
> virtual OS (the VM) and not have to worry about the different
> OS's below it.

Those who knew the history of previous attempts to do this sort of thing 
could already predict why it wasn’t going to succeed.