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To: micromike who wrote (9940)5/26/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: John Mireley  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Java may drive Consumer Electronics networks

techweb.com

Consumer Vendors Set A
Home-Network Agenda
(05/26/98; 2:51 p.m. EST)
By Junko Yoshida, EE Times

Armed with a set of freshly minted home-networking
application programming interfaces (APIs) for digital
appliances, consumer-electronics giants are pushing to
define their own architectural agenda for the home
network, in hopes of gaining an edge on would-be
competitors in the PC sector. The effort could bring
Java deeper into the consumer space than it has ever
been.

Called the Home Audio-Video interoperability (HAVi)
architecture, the specification from eight major
consumer companies lets digital appliances designed by
different manufacturers connect and interact over an
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1394-based link, with or without the presence of a PC.
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