[1315] in java-interest
re: The Future of Java (and Sun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Stephen Rodgers)
Tue Aug 29 19:33:08 1995
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:43:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Stephen Rodgers <rsrodger@wam.umd.edu>
To: Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB <sgrmek@public.srce.hr>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950829182014.7150C-100000@jagor.srce.hr>
> According to an article in the Financial Times (jul 17) Sun intends to
> finance (by actual hardware donations) universities to develop serious
> freeware (text processors, spreadsheets and whatever non-computer people
> out there need). This will have the effect of significantly lowering the
> cost of a full system (which is at least 1/2 in software), freeing a lot
> of buying power for hardware.
Hmm. Interesting approach. I wonder what a wordprocessor with all of
the UI ease of EMACS and all of the efficiency of X would be like.
(Said while typing in vi.)
Are the big three nothing more than programs constructed with
wordprocessing in mind, or are they interfaces with the programs
as an afterthought?
RSR
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