Hi all, The thread so far reminds me of the situation when I (and probably most of us as well) was a bit younger and looking most of the time for the "coolest" home computer (the "PC" of that time) application or game.
The framework/loader had mostly been realized in BASIC (I dare to say the "Java"-multiplatform equivalent of that time), the most important part (if it was a fast/efficient program that was able to get the last pocket money out of us this way) had been written in machine-specific Assembler (6502/6510, 8086, Z80, ...). "More machine-specific Assembler = higher purchase price" was the IT boss' and customer's "linear" equation at that time (and in a similar way surely today as well). I'm relatively satisfied with the JVMs that I've seen by now (as I already told : about 90% of my applets work satisfactory even on PDAs ( OK, I still restrict myself to Applets under Java 1.0 and one has to use a 400 Mhz PDA to put truth into these words). Just minor problems with the standard font's character-width (MSIE <-> NetscapeNavigator), whch I probably could have avoided by explicit font selection. I don't think that BASIC (with it's several interpreters and compilers) had a better multiplatform performance decades ago. sincerely, U. Penski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://uuhome.de/penski ( a tiny bit of Basic still at http://uuhome.de/penski/xsoft.htm ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "jdjlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Write Once, Run Anywhere > I agree, not even the line: > > System.out.println("Hello World"); > > is portable everywhere!!!! > > Although in all fairness Sun did readjust their stance: > > "Develop Once; Deploy Anywhere" > > Not much better, but getting there > > > PS still love ya Jase! ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to jdjlist as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sys-con.com/fusetalk
