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To: Urlman who wrote (9913)	5/22/1998 9:25:00 AM
From: micromike	Respond to of 64865

Pico Java still appears to be vaporware: Well my read on it is that Sun doesn't have enough engineers to pick up the pace. Pico Java is very important for Sun so I'm sure they are pushing very hard to get it out the door. Microsoft's WTS Solution: How Much Do You Want to Pay Today? sun.com By entering the market with an NC offering, Microsoft is demonstrating that it sees the value in network computing. Their WTS, however, with its scalability, security, network complexity problems, may come at too high a cost. --- Mike

To: Urlman who wrote (9913)	7/2/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Ron Mayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Java Virtual Machine hardware for MPEG-2 digital video encoding! eet.com > >a low-cost, highly integrated MPEG-2 encoder >...iCompression Inc. has started sampling... >...Java Virtual Machine icompression.com > > izC has an unique architecture consisting of two on-chip digital > signal processors. They execute Java(TM) Virtual Machine > instructions and perform audio digital signal processing, and high > level video and sequencing functions. > This is a cool use of Java technology in a number of ways: ) Java in what appears to be a hard-real-time system. ) Apparently multiple JVM cores in the single chip. Any other cool applications of embedded Java hardware out there now?