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- From: ell@access2.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
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- Date: 15 Mar 1996 15:57:31 GMT
- Organization: The Universe
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- Richard Krehbiel (rich@kastle.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Wasn't this related to an OS of the similar name. And it was that DOS
- that dusted off the that OS. Didn't this also have something to do with
- Lilith - the Modula machine?
-
- Elliott
-