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To: JC Jaros who wrote (23116)	11/17/1999 11:47:00 PM
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A:Sun has Chorus. Not applicable. Serves a different market. B:The OS at that level is irrelevant (particularly if it's Java) Why would SUNW want to acquire Java operating systems? Maybe there is a reason: portability. Let's say little tiny processors follow Moore's law like their big brothers and suddenly are able to run a mostly-Java-byte-code OS with a genuinely tiny machine-specific kernel (and I mean tinier than Chorus). No compiler required. I'm talking really small stuff here where performance is less of an issue (i.e, a Palm Pilot or a phone or a watch). Anyway, Sun tried to do just this kind of thing and blew it, and they were still trying for a long time after they acquired Chorus. One never knows, JC<g>. --QS

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