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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:51
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In article <davis-1901962023410001@pppsb15.itg.ti.com>,
Tom L. Davis <davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com> wrote:
>In article <4dmovb$bk7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
>Krishna Swamy) wrote:
>
>    In article <nevin-1801961639090001@150.135.1.79>,
>    Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>    >In article <4dlnmr$5cl@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
>    >Krishna Swamy) wrote:
>    >
>    >> >I just checked http://java.sun.com/JDK-beta2/index.html but I couldn't
>    >> >find that Sun supported Linux.
>    >
>    >> Perhaps you should check this link instead.  I am too lazy to check
>now. :)
>    >
>    >Too lazy just to click your mouse once??  Oh, wait, I forgot, you don't
>    >use a Mac; you use a so-called superior system that makes you apply so
>    >much more effort just to do even the most trivial of tasks.
>    
>    Sigh...  Explain to me how your damn Mac is going to connect to
>    the stinking URL when you are connected to the Internet via
>    a terminal program running through a 2400 baud modem?  Yes, I
>    am REALLY waiting to know how the Mac manages to connect
>    to the URL.  
>
>Jesus H. Christ! Are you serious?

No, I already know the answer.  It is impossible for it to work
in my situation.

>    >> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
>    >
>    >I tried checking it myself, but it appears to be down.
>    
>    I tried it myself with Lynx just now and it appears just fine.
>    I guess your Mac is not up to the task.  If you want to be
>    an annoying idiot and make stupid comments without knowing
>    the situation then I have no problems at doing the same.
>
>Well, I just tried it with my Mac and it works fine. BTW, the first
>sentence of the page refers to porting Java to Linux. I doesn't seem to be
>all done.

No, it isn't all done, but then Java isn't really finished either...

Ravi
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Ravi K. Swamy                http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/
rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu         root@genom.com
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From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 20 Jan 1996 02:51:05 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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