Message-ID: Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 06:50:23 From: "Joseph Morris" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: JavaPC... urgh! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk > >Just browsed some of Suns announcements and found a rather >interesting twist on "Project Rescue" it turns out that it >is now called: > > JavaPC > >Schedualed for home consumer shopping "Fall 97" (read in >time for X-mas :) rendering your obsolete 486's and >Pentiums into cutting edge JAVAOS enabled web browsing >fiends... :) > >Actually I'm rather looking forward to it, I'd >really like to write a MOO in JAVA and then >watch people log in and die from the lag :) > >[oh yeah I'm serious about writing that Moo] > I am already getting a small taste of what the new age of Network Computers will be like.. My email address is at usa.net, an advertising-funded free email service, on the other side of the world from me. Now: to access this, members get an account which is accessable via the web, using a bizarre CGI-powered email reader. It's _horrible_! Fortunately each weekend I can connect to the server directly via pop3 and use eudora (maybe linux in the future..), like a normal person. From university the firewall prevents me from doing this. It's very useful because it takes the load off my regular email address, and I can access the Opendos list anywhere. But I'd rather die than see all software run through Java like this mailer. If you wish to try it, http://www.usa.net. It's free and you can cancel any time (I don't intend to though).