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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Unfortunately, if you are looking for a cool name, you are going to be
>reusing one.  The latest incarnation appears to be "Javelin", a loosely
>coupled, massively parallel JVM type thing.
>

I used to drive a Javelin, somehow that name does not fill me with great
confidence in performance. Wait a minute, "loosely coupled, massive," 
hey that does work. ;->