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S_Grimm

Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:54 pm


Java for DOS

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I recently decided that I wanted to try programming with JAVA in DOS. NOT command.com, or cmd.exe, but MS-DOS 6.22. My only problem is.... JDK is for windows (and others) but NOT DOS. So.... does anyone know where i can get a copy of some sort of Java Compler\Virtual Machine that runs purley in DOS?

Thanks in Advance
A\V


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btiffin

Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:51 am


RE:Java for DOS

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I can't speak to having tried it but I heard mention a long time ago of the Taurus jvm targeting DOS.

I'd be surprised if it worked, but it might.

This site may offer more info;
http://java-virtual-machine.net/other.html

I usually like to offer a best of skill, as I figure development should not rely on luck, but for this one; Best of luck.  ;)

Cheers


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S_Grimm

Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:28 am


RE:Java for DOS

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luck??? there has to be something that is still out there. before windows, all programming was done in dos. SOMETHING must still be there...


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wtd

Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:01 pm


RE:Java for DOS

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Java was developed by Unix nerds at Sun and released in 1995.  Windows was entrenched by that point and the Sun nerds didn't give two flips about DOS.


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Ultrahex

Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:05 pm


Re: Java for DOS

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Also I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish by doing java coding in dos. Just curious as why you would want to do this.


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S_Grimm

Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:32 pm


RE:Java for DOS

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meh. i will still try to find one... Ultrahax, I want to use java in a pure DOS enviroment, per request of the teacher.


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btiffin

Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:04 pm


RE:Java for DOS

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Hello again,

Yeah; I'm not going to try it, or investigate or ..., I can't even speak for the website being clean, but try

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/6125/javavm/index.html

and check the Taurus 0.16 jvm for Psion and MS-DOS, see if it interests. 

If this is really a request for a teacher ... I'd be surprised if they didn't mean a DOS box under win (forcing the class to use command line tools and zero GUI assistance) and not an INT 21H based MS-DOS, but I'll leave that one alone for now.

Cheers