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To: Kashish King who wrote (26150)	11/24/1997 8:25:00 PM
From: James Yu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585881

Rod, The Controversy of Java: - SUN: Java, Java, Java, All of mine(platform) - MSFT: Java, a program language. Here are some articles of Java which may help us a little bit to understand it. techweb.com Click on, "Sun's Tribble on Wintel and Java", then click on Related Stories, "Java: Write Once Fat Chance" and "Wintel's Wailing Tells Us Java's Here To Stay" Best wishes James

To: Kashish King who wrote (26150)	11/25/1997 2:37:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585881

Rod, I believe you are right about Java's potential being much greater than most people think. I've read about a pure Java shareware Internet Browser which is as fast as Netscape and IE. Since Java runs on a "virtual machine," it reduces the value of code compatibility with the venerable 'x86' instruction set. I don't think Intel is ahead of AMD in this area. I have heard that the K7 will be able to be run in a direct RISC mode without the x86->RISC conversion. Intel won't have this until the Merced a year later. Meanwhile, companies like IDT sell 64 bit, 200 MIPS RISC CPU's for $39 in quantity -- and make a profit on them because of tiny die sizes. The biggest threat to Java is sabotage by Microsoft. BTW, is it true that an Active-X control downloaded from a web site could contain the "F0" bug and lock up a web surfer's Pentium machine? Petz