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- From: anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar14.170937.116026@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 14 Mar 96 17:09:37 CST
- References: <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> <milodDo5yDE.H8B@netcom.com> <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Well, this is 1996 and not 1980. We have faster, better, and meaner
- CPUs. Joe the average's machine kicks a__.
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- The Web was not around in 1980 either.
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- Anh
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- In article <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com>, rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
- > milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo) wrote:
- >
- >>ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
- >
- >>>What is you can do in Java, you can't do as easily with a library in C++?
- >
- >>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.
- >
- > --
- > Richard Krehbiel, Kastle Systems, Arlington VA USA
- > rich@kastle.com (work) or richk@mnsinc.com (personal)
- >
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