6 May
2005
6 May
'05
7:34 p.m.
On Thu, 5 May 2005 12:31:57 -0400
"Computer Collector Newsletter" <news at computercollector.com> wrote:
...Why that "ten year rule" no longer
applies: Java.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/05/HNjavaat10_1.html
I can already hear the moans of "hear we go again" but I figured this
example is amusing enough... I recall that last time we sort of agreed
that date alone is hardly what makes something "vintage". I still
concur.
Oh, I dunno. There's a certain folkloric amusement in collecting
examples of early Java hype. It's kinda like looking back at old issues
of Mondo 2000 magazine. Was there anything 'java' *except* hype for the
first few years? All those vacuous early 'Java' books from the era when
common knowledge was that 'java is a mechanism for selling books and
magazine articles' will one day be collectable.
I have a copy of 'Corel Office for Java' (it's just an executable:
COJ.EXE) that they put out as a beta-experiment back in the late 90's.
I fired it up recently on a Pentium III system in Windows 2000 and it's
pretty snappy and nice. Shouldn't have flopped, but there was a lot of
odd stuff happening back then...
This all detracts from what people on this list hold in common as
'interesting' though so I will shut up.