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To: JDN who wrote (19729)	9/17/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

To All: Can anyone explain what the following means? ie What is SUNW doing in jointly developing a cellular phone? Is this a new line of business? I am quite interested in exactly what is going on. JDN Japan's largest toymaker, best known for its pocket-sized Tamagotchi virtual pet game, will next year begin distributing its Internet game software to users of a new i-mode cellular phone being developed jointly by NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) and Sun Microsystems Inc. of the U.S., company spokeswoman Miki Taneda said. Currently, Bandai provides services for the i-mode, a service which allows users to check stock prices and conduct bank transactions, among other uses, over a mobile phone. Users can get static images like the Hello Kitty character and play a quiz game on the phone display. With the help of Sun's Java technology, which allows programs to run on different computer systems, users will be able to download moving images to i-mode phones.

To: JDN who wrote (19729)	9/17/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

DEAR JDN, You can order LINUX on new PCs nowadays. Or that is what I hear. Best wishes, Mephisto

To: JDN who wrote (19729)	9/18/1999 4:02:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear JDN. If you ever invest some time in installing LINUX on your home PC, it will be the best experience in your life. You will know a lot more about your computer's hardware than you will ever need to. I installed both Win98 and Slackware Linux on my machine. I just bought another hard disk and I plan to install Window NT and Solaris 7.0 on that disk too. I've ordered the 66MB Star Office CD from Sun (don't want to download that with my 28.8kbs modem.) Having 4 OS in the same machine will be awesome, although I have to admit that repartitioning you hard drive, configuring X windows, and installing your serial modem driver aren't exactly piece of cake in Linux, but it's definitely worth the time for me.