Re: OS/2 & Cyrix

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

Peter Evans wrote:
> Well, for example (and in the context of reviews of such packages as Corel
> Office for Java): ". . . The disadvantage is that Java programs run
> considerably slower than those optimized for particular platforms. .

 Numbah One -- "optimized for particular platforms" -- I'm talking
about JavaOS, not Java Virual Machine. Meaning that something like
Corel's Word Perfect Office for Java *is* optimized for a particular
platform -- JavaOS -- but also runs under any other OS. Have you seen a
review of it running under JavaOS? I haven't.
  But even worse -- you're argueing from the basis of reviews of
*pre-beta* software??

> (That's from http://www1.zdnet.com/pcmagcd/v5d2/html/javavue.htm.)

  This, BTW, is one of the worst excuses for a web-page I've ever
experienced -- almost as bad (worse in some ways) than TTG's page. They
forget the most basic tenet of webpublishing -- that it has to work with
whatever -- and insist upon plug-ins, plus lock up the browser over and
over. And their content??? Almost non-existent! Only a few sentences in
their "reviews" really, mostly a lot of frame crap.

>
> You surprise me. I thought that one of numerous existing releases of
> WordPerfect was pure, 100% Java--and that it's nowhere near as ambitious a


  Uhhh -- no, I don't think so. The release of the Java version isn't
scheduled until this Fall. The *pre-beta* version is the only one I've
seen, and it -- as they clearly state -- is not even remotely complete.
It's not a "lite" version in any way, shape, or form -- it's *pre-beta*,
meaning it's not even a beta version yet. But perhaps you've never
tested beta software and have no concept of what that can mean.

>
> >Given the choice, you'd no doubt prefer your Pentium (of whatever
> >speed) to a Sun Sparcstation of like "speed", eh?
>
> I'm not sure of what you mean by these machines, and thus how to interpret
> your question. Given the choice between a Sparcstation that ran Corel

  Take a 110mhz Pentium and a 110mhz Sparc (such as the Netra) -- which
do you think is faster? Are they even remotely comparable?

>  COJava is (I believe) like COWin95 lite

  Nope

>  UNIX applications are (I've heard) a pain to install

  Nope -- or at least not for anyone who knows unix

>  parts for an Intel clone are cheap to replace when (not if)
>   they go wrong

  You pays your money and you takes your choice, I guess. Sun's don't
break all that much. Or crash.

>  there are a lot of Windows and DOS programs that I want to run

   Not many I want to run, but a lot of nice unix apps for free.

>  UNIX (and other) Windows and DOS emulations are (I believe)
>   slow

  Nope -- in fact, most windoze apps are faster under unix.


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