sparcalarms, was Re: [rescue] Perverse Question

[Eric Josephson]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> 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!!!!!
>

Nor was zil, though putting a zork-like interface on the coffee machine
sounds kind of fun.

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Eric Josephson <ericj at speakeasy.org>