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- From: rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar14.124235.9729@friend.kastle.com>
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- Organization: Kastle Development Associates
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- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:41:58 GMT
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- milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo) wrote:
-
- >ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
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- >>What is you can do in Java, you can't do as easily with a library in C++?
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- >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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