Good news for those ARM processor folks seeking to avoid licensing and porting headaches
Boston (February 12, 1997) — The JavaOS will now be available for the ARM architecture directly from Sun Microsystems Inc.’s JavaSoft, company officials announced yesterday.
Prior to yesterday’s announcement, manufacturers that wanted to offer the JavaOS on ARM processors had to get a license from JavaSoft and port it themselves, said Julie Seymour, a spokeswoman at Advanced Risc Machines (ARM) PLC. The JavaOS is already available for X86 and SPARC processors.
ARM hopes JavaSoft’s support will spur deployment of the ARM family of processors, which includes the ARM7500FE and the StrongARM, Seymour said.
“If the support is out there, if they don’t have to do it themselves, it makes it easier to use the ARM architecture,” Seymour said.
Advanced Risc Machines (ARM) PLC is located in Cambridge, England. Sun has headquarters in Mountain View, CA (see “Resources” below for contact information).
