Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:23:52 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>, jfieber@indiana.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bloated operating systems Message-ID: <33D7D5F8.55BE@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <199707242215.AAA29519@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> Probably more like "We will ship and shove down our users throats another > bloated OS which includes for example AFCs, but not JFCs, because that would > promote something that doesn't force the user to stay with windows." Except that the current pre-release of the AFCs is 100% pure Java, and is supposed to stay that way. I've developed some toy programs with it on HP/UX's 1.1 JDK, and sure enough, they barely work---but it was kinda eerie seeing new-Windows-style widgets on a Unix desktop before the stupid library crashed and burned. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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