From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 07:37:14 PDT
To: pgf@tyrell.net (Phil Fraering)
Subject: Re: And another thing...
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> 
> 
> As usual, one final question came to mind right after
> sending the last message:
> 
> Why is Java the next hot thing instead of Telescript?
> 
> Was Telescript ever opened up for general use or was it
> mainly used for AT&T's Personalink network?
> 
> Phil


Unless I'm mistaken, Telescript was part of General Magic's technology.
Besides the language deficiencies, IMHO, they would release almost
nothing to the general developers, much less a sample implementation
to be ported.  It's almost impossible to develop for: you need a souped
up MAC, a developer PDA, etc...

(I'm talking about Magic Cap (the OS) development in which I think the
language was called Telescript.)

Compared to a powerful Unix development environment (if and when it gets
ported to Linux, HPUX, or SGI that I use...(no longer in a Sun shop),
it really seem awful.  It was also very buggy as late as mid last
year.

OTOH, I wrote a piece of software that interprets the raw async data from
satellite and chops it into articles.  (Reuters special feed for Magic
Cap clients...)

sdw
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