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Article #2945Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:51
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 -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!rkswamy 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 Message-ID: <4dplap$qr3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <nevin-1801961639090001@150.135.1.79> <4dmovb$bk7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <davis-1901962023410001@pppsb15.itg.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc04du.unity.ncsu.edu