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  1. Path: gazette.engr.sgi.com!mainemoose!patcar
  2. From: patcar@mainemoose.esd.sgi.com (Pat Caruthers)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
  4. Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
  5. Date: 15 Mar 1996 00:10:50 GMT
  6. Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
  7. Message-ID: <4iacia$hng@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
  8. References: <4i40ik$9dt@news4.digex.net> <milodDo5yDE.H8B@netcom.com> <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com> <1996Mar14.170937.116026@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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  10.  
  11.  
  12. > >>ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
  13. > >>Folklore has it
  14. > >>that Sun couldn't even interest anyone in Oak until the
  15. > >>applet idea came around.
  16.  
  17. folklore is wrong.
  18. it often is.
  19. many people were interested in oak and what it could do.
  20.  
  21. no one was interested in paying to have it done.
  22. different things.
  23.  
  24. pat
  25.