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	RE: WHAT JAVA IS SAYING

Sent:	5/28/96; 10:07:48 AM
From:	malcolm@interval.com (Malcolm Slaney)

> Now, with the addition of the Internet to personal computing, and its > clean low-tech well-understood APIs, it's time to think about RPC > again. The Internet is the vendorless platform. It's a groupware > system. Let's try again. We can work together! > > That's what Java is saying.

James Gosling NeWS system had the same architecture.... you could write Postscript programs that ran in the remote user's display hardware and do all sorts of things without much network bandwidth.

But NeWS lost out to a fast and ugly system called the X Window System. I hope the same doesn't happen this time.

-- Malcolm