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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (40750)	11/20/1997 1:36:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Paul - Re: "The shift to network based computing and to JAVA has started to make the OS on the desktop less important. At the same time the artificial need for more and more power on the desktop is being challenged by the Volkswagon's (Borlands)of the industry -" You have obviously fallen for the Hype without investigating reality. The success of Java will accelerate Intel's dominance for the simple fact that Java requires the most CPU performance it can get! And right now, Intel is the horsepower leader. By virture of its "write once, run everywhere" concept, Java was cast as an interpretive language. Each PC has to have a JVM - Java Virtual Machine - to tranlsate Java Byte Code - LINE BY LINE - and execute it. This is a SLOW process - if you'd bother to study the subject, you would know. Intel has developed an optimized JVM for Pentium machines and the Pentium II platform represents the best performance/value tradoff for Java performance. Since none of this will convince you - saunter on over to that Thanksgiving Day Gobbler MediaGX machine that you just bought and fire up a Java-enabled browser and download some Java Applets - and perform your own tests. Then do the same on a Pentium based machine. You will then realize why Java's success will accelerate the Intel dominance in CPUs. Remember - arguments about Java native compilers, etc., defeat most of the raison d'etre for Java - so the interpretive implimentation will still govern the choice of CPU platforms. Paul