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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (3908)	9/12/1997 6:04:00 PM
From: StockMan	of 64865

Charles, There is no standard bodies for instruction sets, and operating systems, as there will be no standard bodies for the java virtual machine. There however are standard bodies for hardware/software protocols, languages etc.. The x86 instruction set (Note you have it confused with the x86 architecture) is available anywhere, and you don't have to pay anyone licencing fees etc.. to develop a machine (hardware/software) with these instructions. Similarly the Windows API is open, not the windows OS (this is why java applications can be developed and run on windows). I haven't read what is being requested of Sun, but I suspect it is the language definition, that is to be made open. Stockman

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