sparcalarms, was Re: [rescue] Perverse Question

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Eric Josephson wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
> > > I use my LX'es as alarm clocks and they'll definitely
> > > handle mp3s.
> >
> > I'd love to see a small write-up on this... Think of the possibilities
> > - why, if we could interconnect all our appliances, and maybe come up
> > with a portable programming language that would allow you to write
> > once, run anywhere, well, you could be on to something...
> >
>
> You mean like p-code or zil?  It's been done.  Never caught on, though.

P-code was not meant for that really, that sounds more like... JAVA!!!!!

actualy java was intended for that use (it was originally thought as an
embedded language)