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- From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Message-ID: <milodDo9vrD.3K@netcom.com>
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- References: <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> <milodDo5yDE.H8B@netcom.com> <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:35:37 GMT
- Sender: milod@netcom16.netcom.com
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- rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
-
- >milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo) wrote:
- >>ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
-
- >>Write applets the run on the Web (duh! :-) Folklore has it
- >>that Sun couldn't even interest anyone in Oak until the
- >>applet idea came around. Suddenly, everybody wants some.
-
- >>Seriously: The 2nd most notable thing about Java may be the
- >>JVM. Developers can write programs that are binary compatible
- >>on a variety of platforms and operating systems (remember JF?).
-
- >Anybody remember the UCSD Pascal system?
-
- >The executables were interpreted UCSD Pascal P-code (they didn't call
- >it a virtual CPU). A CPU was even created to run the P-code directly
- >(the Pascal Microengine was a re-microcoded LSI-11 chip set). Remind
- >anyone of the Java chips Sun intends to create?
-
- >The system sank. Nobody wants real applications delivered this way,
- >when they could instead have native-code performance.
-
- Right. Which is why I said the JVM was the *2nd* most notable
- thing about Java. Other languages besides Pascal have used VM
- implementations (Smalltalk springs to mind), and they have
- succeeded to a greater or lesser extent. The interesting difference
- about Java is the Web, and the supposed security that is built
- into the JVM.
-
- --
- ciao,
- milo
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