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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:26:02 +0100
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: need another patient ear: - SwinSet java/lang/Thread
Message-ID:  <19980323192602.45244@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3516A666.63BBDA55@plutotech.com>; from Sean Kelly on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:13:58AM -0700
References:  <199803231730.SAA05747@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <35169DB8.837146D@plutotech.com> <19980323190040.38613@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <3516A666.63BBDA55@plutotech.com>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:13:58AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Christoph wrote:
> > Oh wonder, it works! It takes a tremendous amount to come up
> > though (on my Amd DX4/133, which I'm using for my daily work ) and .. uh, oh
> > is *that* slow, phew :)
> 
> Oh, you said it.  We can spread the blame among Java itself, Swing
> (definitely), our own JDK, and ... oh, let's through in X windows. :-)
> 
> > But OTOH, really looking nice.
> 
> That, and the fact that it'll be part of the Java core shortly, is why
> I'm committed to it, as slow and as painful as it is.
> 
> > Hmm, Windows
> > look&feel doesn't seem to be supported. Is that left to Windows
> > platforms only?
> 
> Some other lawsuit issue I'm lead to believe.  Anyone else have details
> on this?

Hmm. Does Bill Gates have a patent on illuminating certain phosphor regions
on a CRT tube :-^?

He may have a patent on the old indian saying:

"Windows - white men watching hourglass through windscreen".

;-)

> 
> --Sean

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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