[1974] in java-interest
Re: NetScape and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ser@jersey.sun.com)
Wed Sep 20 18:30:21 1995
From: ser@jersey.sun.com
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:44:49 -0700
Glen C. Perkins said:
> Netscape is clearly on its way to becoming a multiplatform operating
> system for communicative apps (which could be most apps in a few
> short years.)
This is an interesting concept, and brings to mind a discussion that appeared
in this group a couple of months ago about making a Java operating system.
Lets assume that HotJava, with it's easy extensibility, will also grow to have
the same support that Netscape 2.0 will exhibit. If we take something like
the Mach 4 kernel, which is very lean, and add to that just enough support to
run the Java interpreter, we have a very small system that uses a minimum of
system resources yet is capable of handling nearly all the jobs the average
user would want. This system would be ideal for the laptop market, where
memory and disk are at a premium. Of course, only java applications would run
on this system. Actually, without support for Microsoft Word this system
probably wouldn't be very successfull ;-). But I like the idea.
> That's why Netscape would need to buy it. Otherwise, as with HTML,
> they could just take it, couldn't they? ;-)
I understand your reasoning. However, I doubt the Netscape people want the
added burden of developing the Java language (compiler, interpreter, etc.).
That's a lot of additional work that they probably don't need.
--- SER
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