[2297] in java-interest
Re: Spare CPU cycles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Niemeyer)
Thu Sep 28 07:58:13 1995
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 04:53:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Pat Niemeyer <pat@icon-stl.net>
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <Elliotte@blackstar.com>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com, elharo@inch.com,
Josh Peck <jbpeck@icon-stl.net>
In-Reply-To: <5D429F64044@blackstar.blackstar.com>
On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> There have been a number of problems solved by harnessing the power
> of multiple computers working in parallel such as the recent cracking
> of Netscape's 40-bit security code and my own work on optimal batting
> orders (not the most significant projects I admit). However until now
> the lead programmer had to be trusted on all the systems he or she
> used. That is no longer true if the code is written in java.
>
> Any thoughts?
People can build whatever tools they like to manage the applets they
pull in from the net. This will not be a serious problem.
Think of how cool it would have been for the RSA-129 factoring project
to have been undertaken in Java.
People without any special software, administration, or knowledge could
have participated by simply parking their browser on a web page.
Oops, have to do some work? Just surf on... When you're done come back
and the applet starts() and picks up where you left off.
God I love this language.
Java is going to eat the world alive.
Pat
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