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Kaffe is a lean, fast and portable virtual machine. When compared to the reference implementation of the JVM written by Sun Microsystems, Kaffe is significantly smaller. Thus, it appeals to embedded system developers. It comes with just-in-time compilers for many of the CPU architectures it has been ported to, more than 70 system platforms in total. It runs on devices ranging from embedded SuperH devices to zSeriesSince December, 2001, IBM designates all its mainframes with the name eserver zSeries with the e depicted in IBM's well-known red trademarked symbol. Nonetheless, the term zSeries now popularly refers only to IBM's newest line of 64-bit mainframes, starti mainframes. It even runs on PlayStation 2The PlayStation 2 PS2 ( Japanese: 2) is Sony's second video game console, after the PlayStation. Its development was announced in April 1999, and it was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000. It was released in the United States on 26 October 2000..
Kaffe is free softwareThis article refers to free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For software available free of charge, see Freeware. The term free software refers to software which, once obtained, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed.. It is licensed under the terms of the GNUFor the African animal gnu see wildebeest. logo Believed to be the original artwork of Etienne Suvasa GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix". The GNU project was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete operating General Public License ( GPL). It is being developed by a world-wide team of hackerHacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts. It is also sometimes extended to mean any kind of expert, especially with the connotation of having particularly detailed knowledge or of cleverly circumventing limits. The meaning ofs. Beside the mailing list, the developers can often be reached via IRCInternet Relay Chat (IRC is a form of instant communication over the Internet. It is mainly designed for group (one-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels but also allows one-to-one communication. IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen ( in the #kaffe channel on irc.freenode.org.