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[Pre Java 1.0 Resources] HotJava 1.0alpha2 for Windows NT

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Hello,
a while ago I was looking into old Java releases (see https://github.com/leibnitz27/cfr_tests/issues/1 and https://github.com/Marcono1234/HotJava-1.0-alpha) and found https://web.archive.org/web/19961225173659/http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/hotjava/ which also includes hotjava-alpha2-nt-x86.exe. You can use a tool like 7-Zip to inspect its content. That page also contains the HotJava alpha2 & alpha3 releases for SunOS, which seem to be identical to the ones you have already linked.
Hopefully that is useful for you, and thanks for maintaining the Java Almanac!

There is also https://web.archive.org/web/19961219153722/http://www.mcp.com:80/que/javarc/se_java/macjdk.zip but I am not completely sure what version it represents. Based on the README it seems to be JDK v1.0b1 for Mac, but the dates are after the ones for the JDK 1.0 release (possibly because the Mac version wasn't ready when JDK 1.0 was released, see press release[^1]).

Disclaimer: The files looks legitimate but it might be difficult to tell if these were really the original artifacts.

[^1]: Found this press release link on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#JDK_1.0

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Review the existing pre-Java 1.0 resource entries in the Java Almanac, then inspect the linked HotJava alpha2 Windows NT executable and the Mac JDK archive with the referenced tools and archived pages. Done means deciding whether these artifacts are sufficiently verified and adding the appropriate resource information with its provenance and uncertainty recorded.

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