Re: Java

Matthew S. Crocker (matthew@crocker.com)
Thu, 29 May 1997 09:27:53 +0000 (GMT)

> This list sees numerous letters for little enhancements such as this
> one, tweaks to existing features, and so on. Rather than deal with
> them as individual features, has Livingston considered adding a java
> virtual machine (or a TCL interpreter, or something else) to ComOS and
> providing hooks into ComOS's operation? Then people could just code
> up their own extensions.
>
> I don't know how much memory Java takes, but I read once the core TCL
> interpreter is only about 6k of code...

Now that future ComOS versions will not fit in 1MB and all the PMs will
have 4MB at least it may be possible. I would much rather have a VERY
robust SNMP implementation so I can have a 'watcher' program on a unix box
which can monitor the whole situation. Then, I could watch Idle/login
info from all the PM's at the same time and reset ports, update stats etc
with SNMP commands.

-Matt

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