Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 08:22:37 03/22/04
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On March 22, 2004 at 08:03:22, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: >Yes , this is still available from Microsoft site - but they were forced to >stop furthur development on this and shipping of non-compliant versions. I can not find it _anywhere_ on the MS site. I have even done a search for it. I believe they removed it. >Sun release used to be a reference implementation - more like a proof of >concept. Ofcourse , once the JIT versions from 1.3 came up , they are much much >better. > >>Run two identical computers side by side and have one use the Sun release and >>the other use the MS release, and the MS release wins hands down. >> > >You are comparing something that is running java 1.1 and running 1.4 ??? >What is the point of comparing different versions ? I am comparing the speed of the two versions. 1.4 is drastically slower. >>So far I am not losing out on anything. I have Java installed, and I don't have >>any concerns. Lawyers can file all the papers they want, I am still going to use >>the free software I want to use.. _no one_ can tell me differently. >> > >You can create viruses in your comp - and no one will tell you anything unless >you release them too :) >Forgetting that , you will ermain locked in to a older implementation , which is >not compliant with any of the newer specs. >Pretty soon , you wont have most of the available functionality available. >Most applet developers continue to support 1.1 which is why , you still dont >have a problem, but this is going to change prety soon ... and then you would >not be able to run most of the newer apps ! >It is like saying , I will use only DOS 6.0 and I also want to run win32 apps :) Not at all. I don't run anything that is DOS 6.0. I only run win32 applications. I have no need for DOS. It is outdated and almost useless. Peter
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