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When I left Austria where I spent five years working for Alcatel, in Vienna, I was hired by a small french company - Netmansys, located in Grenoble, France.

There I had the opportunity to follow one of the first Java courses organized by Sun for its own employees. After completing that course I wrote a small Java Applet which would let you explore the fractal images of Mandelbrot.
I believe this was back in 1996 - or maybe 1997 - nearly ten years ago. As far as I remember I must have used JDK 1.0.1 or something like that. The class file bears the version "45" and can be loaded with JDK 1.0.2 appletviewer (yes, we do have archives of old binaries at Sun ;-)).

The point is, I compiled this code on an HP-UX workstation, using one of the earliest JDK versions, ten years ago. When I left Netmansys, I copied this binary code to my private web-page. What doesn't fail to amaze me, is that this small binary, compiled nearly 10 years ago, on an HP-UX workstation, with JDK ~ 1.0.2 or such, still runs now, using Java RE 5.0, both on my Solaris 10 Ultra Sparc and my 1.9 Ghz AMD PC XP!!!?
Why, I even had it run with the not yet released Java SE 6.0 Mustang!
And you know what? Since the performances of the JDK have improved constantly, it even runs better and faster now than before! And it's the same old binary, and as far as I remember, I didn't even recompile it once!

Do you believe this?

Look for yourself, it's there!

Cheers,
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Posted by dfuchs ( Jan 12 2006, 04:14:18 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]