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To: Luce Wildebeest who wrote (571)	1/26/1999 11:38:00 AM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1606

Patriot Scientific is the first company to bring Java hardware to market. To find out more, check ptsc.com. They trade as PTSC. Java hardware is the 'holy grail' for speed seekers in the Java marketplace: no JVM (interpreter) is required to execute Java. I have not seen benchmarks comparing their PSC1000 processor, but this paper implies radical speedup compared with other CPU architectures ptsc.com. Their chip is also small, and dissipates little power. They appear to be in financial trouble: most likely due to being ahead of their market. If this company were to IPO again now, instead of when they did, with its positioning and the surge of internet stocks, it would probably make a killing. However, I'm not sure they will make it through 1999. If not, somebody with enough cash to buy them will pick up a bargain. Of course, that would wipe out the current stock holders. It is my opinion that Java hardware will become the 'standard' way of implementing Jini applications in deeply embedded systems such as disk drives. In general, unusual and proprietary hardware architectures have not done well in the embedded systems market place: adoption is slowed by poor development tools, and lack of available software. Neither of these things seem to be true for the PSC1000, since Java is 'write once, run anywhere', and they have support for a major RTOS: VxWorks. Does anybody know anything more about this company, such as are the original hardware designers still with the company? Apart from Sun (who appear to be downplaying Java hardware) are there any other viable Java hardware platforms out there? As usual: These opinions are not provided as investment advice! P.