[Miami] Re: Miamiregister & ordering miamissl.library?

[Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall)]

Hi Chris (Chris Holt), in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sep 02 you wrote:

> On 02-Sep-00, Dan Arico wrote:
> > On 02-Sep-00, Don Cox wrote:
> >> On 01-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>> My thanks to Holger Kruse for staying with the Amiga!
> >>
> >> Not only staying with it, but in his work on Miami and at Rebol,
> >> greatly enhancing it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Of course, we still need Java.  :-(
> >
> > I'd be satisfied with just not having Java crash the browser.
>
> Which Amiga browser is Java crashing?  And where did you get it?

He might simply be thinking that Java has a reputation for crashing
people's browsers (on other platforms) and was figuring that that
might be the same on Amiga if Amiga were to have a Java port.

> You arent' confusing Java with Javascript, are you?  I don't think there is
> working Java implementation for the Amiga yet.  And with the new OE having
> what is reported to be a great Java implementation, I'm not sure it's in
> anyone's interest to make a JVM and all that's associated with it for the
> classic machines.  I'm pretty sure our hopes for that died when Holger
> stopped work on Daytona.

My understanding is that Holger was looking for someone else to take over
the Daytona project from him.  He was going to sell whoever wanted it the
entire package, comprising his development-notes, sourcecode, and whatever
else there was.

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