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To: LKO who wrote (8307)	3/12/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

LKO, what we're discussing wasn't being opened for debate since it was and is common knowledge. Long rambling statements aside, the simple point is that Windows, NT and UNIX APIs (which I take it is what you are incorrectly calling ABIs) are, in fact and as we speak, implemented in the C programming language; other languages are then grafted onto the C language libraries and system calls. The point as it relates to Java and the potential for Java to crack and/or unseat Windows, is this: using the Java virtual machine and Java services provides Java language developers with a homogeneous environment that "protects" them from dependencies on the underlying OS services which, by extension, makes applications, components and tools written in Java portable. Point two: other languages can be implemented on Java and already have been; they must interface with Java in the same manner which COBOL, FORTRAN and the rest interface with C language libraries and system calls on UNIX and NT, for example.