Found here: http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/1997.html Quote: Thursday, February 20, 1997 Andreas Krall has released CACAO 0.1, a free 64 bit JIT compiler for JAVA for Alpha systems running Linux or Digital Unix. CACAO executes Java programs up to 25 times faster than the JDK interpreter and between 1.5 to 2 times slower than an equivalent C program compiled with maximal optimization. However, it can only be used with the JDK 1.0.2. CACAO version 0.1 only supports java.lang, java.io and java.util. Class archives in zip format are not supported. CACAO is distributed free of charge. A long, long way from there to Eclipse... TWISTI