[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>    I don't think anyone ever actually indended people to use the
> HotJava 
> browser for anything but a technological curiosity.
> 
>    And if they did, they're...well, insane.

I think HotJava had two purposes:

1) Proof-of-Concept - big applications could be written in Java, and

2) Provide a means to download Netscape ;^)

Painful doesn't begin to explain the experience - I tried it on an
SS/5-170 with an S24 framebuffer, and had no idea what I was in for...

Wow.

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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