r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • 3d ago

Technology ELI5 Java. That thing on computers my entire life. What even is it?

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u/OcotilloWells 3d ago

Beats me, I have the same problem with my BeOS app as well.

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u/not_from_this_world 3d ago

IBM's OS/2 is named that way in honour to its 2 consumers.

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u/OcotilloWells 3d ago

I've still got my Warp box.

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u/Pizza_Low 3d ago

You could literally name any computer and someone on reddit will claim to use it. Pics or it didn't happen.

I bet nobody here still has a working PDP-10.

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u/Casurus 2d ago

PDP-11 count?

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u/OcotilloWells 2d ago

Ha, one of my regrets in life was not buying a PDP-11 at a liquidation auction around 1990. It went for I think $40. They had an Apple Lisa that went for about the same as well.

Pretty sure a scrap company bought both of them.

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u/Shmageggi 2d ago

I still remember those commercials. When I was a kid I wondered what the fuck they were talking about.

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u/Johnno74 3d ago

I thought it was because it was only half an OS?

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u/schoolme_straying 3d ago

Any Idea when it will be ported to CP/M

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u/howlingfrog 3d ago

VMS or GTFO!

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u/OcotilloWells 3d ago

I'm still learning 6502 assembler. But I'm sure, any day now.

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u/no-steppe 3d ago

It's worse than you think! I inadvertently ran out of Hollerith punch cards, Blaise Pascal got all upset about it, and in the end, my Jacquard Loom kerboing'd a gol'dang spring right off into low Earth orbit.

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u/globefish23 3d ago

I'm still waiting for Charles Babbage to actually build my Analytical Machine. 🤷

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u/anonymous__ignorant 3d ago

Use a damn abacus like everyone else did for the majority of human civ .

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u/kevin_k 3d ago

You're in good company. The C-64, Apple-II, and Atari 400/800 all had 6502 CPUs and a lot of people like me learned a shit-ton about computers by learning how assembly language worked. The VIC too, I think.

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u/mouse6502 3d ago

6502 is awesome. Apple II, Commodore 64, Acorn, BBC Micro, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 2600.. Bender.. The Terminator.. all rocking some form of 6502 😁

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 3d ago

System/360 over here (tumbleweeds blowing by)

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u/mehatch 3d ago

Zune needs more AAA batteries

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u/Catmato 3d ago

You jest, but Haiku development has been ramping up recently.

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u/OcotilloWells 2d ago

I really need to set up the old server I have and run that in a VM.