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From: espie@liafa.jussieu.fr (Marc Espie)
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Subject: Re: Is Anyone Working On A Unicode Version Of Icon?
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In article <8gacji$ob4$1@uwm.edu>,
Alan D Corre <corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
>This prompts me to ask a question that has been bothering me for some time,
>and to which I would appreciate a reply that is not overly technical. I used
>Apple Pascal what seems like eons ago. It was a really nice system, invented
>by Ken Bowles, if I remember correctly. My question is, why is there so much
>fuss about Java working across different platforms? Was not the p-system a
>"virtual machine" which could function in just that way?
Yes, it was.
As for java, the answer is simple: marketing hype.
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Marc Espie
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