[1188] in java-interest
Re: The future of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Warth)
Fri Aug 25 16:12:55 1995
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:45:35 -0700
From: csw@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (Chris Warth)
To: Glen.Perkins@NativeGuide.com, johnm@emf2-003.emf.net
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
>
> [Holy smokes! This sucker was send on Monday and it just got here!]
>
This is in part because java.sun.com had its Time of day chip go bad.
For a couple of days the machine insisted that it was 2007. Even worse
was that time was jumping backward and forward essentially at random.
Weirdest thing I've ever seen.
I've replaced the board which got things running again.
longer term I'm goig to patch the kernel to just ignore the TOD chip
and run ntp instead.
> Glen C. Perkins writes:
> [...]
> > I find it worrying that the world's premier "internet company" is having
> > such a hard time creating a usenet newsgroup for its new language. How many
> > people at Sun know how to create a newsgroup? How much could Java matter to
> > Sun's top management if the original request for discussion (RFD) timed out
> > before anyone even tried a call for votes (CFV) and the process had to be
> > restarted? (Has it been restarted? I still haven't seen it, but I could
> > have missed it.)
> [...A lot of damn good points...]
>
> The second has finally gone out and has gotten *one* response as of right
> this second. :-)
>
> The first RFD was sent out by Jim Fleming who seems to have dropped off the
> face of the earth.
>
>
> Take care,
> John
John is right. The original RFD was issued by Jim Fleming, not by our
group. Then Mr. Fleming dessentially disappeared when it came time for
the CFV. We would have had a newsgroup by now! This has nothing to do
with the premier "internet company" other than we have tried to respect
the process for creating new groups. Orca Starbuck has asked for an
accellerated RFD and CFV in her new proposal so we can hopefully unload
these mailing lists soon.
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