From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Gratuitous bashing ?
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:41:58 GMT
Date: 2001-10-10T16:41:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qT_w7.23239$ev2.31691@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BC47929.A22F574A@san.rr.com
In article <3BC47929.A22F574A@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
>
>Marin David Condic wrote:
>> I noticed they claim Java was developed for embedded systems. I don't recall
>> that being the objective behind Java and I don't think I've encountered any
>> embedded Java projects.
>
>IIRC, Java was originally called "Green" or "Greentree" or some such,
>and was intended for set-top boxes. The idea was to allow stuff like TV
>listings and such to not rely on the specifics of the set-top box.
Which of course explains why it takes my digital cable box 3 seconds to change
the stinking channel...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 14:56 Gratuitous bashing ? Wes Groleau
2001-10-10 16:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-10 16:37 ` Darren New
2001-10-10 16:41 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-10 17:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-10 18:22 ` Darren New
2001-10-10 22:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-11 13:51 ` Cesar Rabak
2001-10-10 20:52 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-11 13:32 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-11 15:20 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-10 16:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-10 17:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-11 12:14 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-10 19:03 ` Robert*
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