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To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: The GUI debate 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Sure my "floppy" holds about 600mb -- fill that up 8)

In other words, is nice to have a unified install program however
given that we now have bootable CDROMS  I don't see why everyone should
be subjected to the least common denominator.


	Amancio

>From The Desk Of John Fieber :
> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Peter Korsten wrote:
> 
> > I think Java would be good starting point. It may not be as fast
> > and high-performance as C/C++, but that's really not that important
> > for a GUI.
> 
> Once the system is installed, java would be fine, but with
> current technology I fear that even a minimal runtime environment
> will instantly destroy any hope of retaining that nifty
> one-floppy install procedure.  Of course, I would be pleased for
> someone to prove me wrong--I like programming in Java.  :) 
> 
> -john
>