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Peter Routsis wrote:
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> 
> exactly why I bothered to ask P.Kittel about AT's involvement- and why his
> answer seemed rather "short-sighted" to me. Because noone can ignore JAVA
> anymore, and it opens an ability to get hold of programms, independent of the
> cpu and OS ( according to SUN-News the Java- programmers did think a bit of
> braking the Windows's dominion..). Which would be a rather cheap and fast
> chance to get a system like the Amiga back on track. 'cause the other way
> would be to implement an emulator into new Amiga OS', which is rather
> pervert. [...stuff omitted...] 

> Noneof the less I think that JAVA will be the future programmer's
> main tools, because of the compatibility. Think that you could programm a 3d-
> prog on a siliconGrafics/sun and use it on an Amiga etc. The programmers
> choose the most suitable system for their developments and put it on the net
> to be used by all platforms. They did give a try with UNIX in the same way,
> but the invirement was not created in those days- but now with the Internet
> the bases for this is given.
> 
>  So JAVA is allmost a" god given gift", and I am wondering why it is
> neglected by AT. I do not say that they have to do it by themselves, but they
> should support this project with all their force. And nowone can tell me that
> they could not coordinate PowerAmiga and JAVA, and can only concentrate on
> either- as many people responded...AT should do the marketing and coordinate
> the various projects done by good people...is this that difficult to do ?
> 
> ---peter---Peter,

	I couldn't agree with you more...  That was precisely my point of 
thinking that a set of JAVA chips should be incorprated on the 
motherboard.  Not to mention, if AT (or really their developers) got 
really creative, they could find a way to create some really unique 
applications that were just for interactive creativity taking the Amiga 
multimedia to new levels.  Imagine Scala as a JAVA application for 
example...  (And if were AT, I would get AmigaVision turned into a JAVA 
app fast, since it would be platform independent then the Amiga name 
could show up on PCs and Macs everywhere echoing to people "you have a 
choice!")

AT's concentration must be beyond the client side of the web and into the 
serving and content creation.  It is there best hope for bringing the 
platform back into the mainstream.  On the client argument, they (as well 
as Acorn or the late Atari), could make the argument for the 
network-as-app paradigm, yet show people how they still get to keep a 
hard drive and local data and apps if they want to...

Paul