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To: Steve Booth who wrote (80)	10/28/1997 10:17:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

>NO!!! They did NOT write extensions to JAVA! That implies that JAVA >applets will run on Microsoft Machines. They took existing JAVA >functions, sub-classed them and returned different values. Like >changing an Integer Return Code and changed it to a Character Return >Code response. Um, yes they did. I'm referring to the COM bindings they added to Java. I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you suggesting that MS changed their JAVA implementation so that JAVA apps would not run on the MS VM? This is just plain wrong. What exactly are you talking about?