From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 14:30:53 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: Re: The Joy of Java
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In article <ada79e9200021004908e@[205.199.118.202]>,
tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:

> I think of it (and so do a lot of others) as:

[snip]

> - a bytecode/virtual machine approach that means the same code can be run
> on any platform for which a VM exists (the key to applets, but also the key
> to portability...what the world might have looked like for the past 15
> years has the UCSD p-system succeeded instead of MS-DOS)

What a horrifying thought!  UCSD p-system actually made MS-DOS look good.

And you're *advocating* Java?

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