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Re: Why IBM ports WIN31?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mete Senocak)
Tue Jan 30 14:46:51 1996

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:28:14 -0800
From: Mete Senocak <msenocak@arachnid.microweb.com>
To: Jung Yun Sang <jungys@daou.co.kr>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com

My guess is:

First, Win 3.1 is practically dead for Microsoft.  They are focused on 
Win 95.

Second, I'd be very surprised if IBM will be able to implement thread 
based programming (which Java is) and native 32 bit integer on Win 3.1 
(which is a 16 bit OS).

- Mete
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