As usual, one final question came to mind right after sending the last message:
Why is Java the next hot thing instead of Telescript?
Was Telescript ever opened up for general use or was it mainly used for AT&T's Personalink network?
Phil
Unless I'm mistaken, Telescript was part of General Magic's technology. Besides the language deficiencies, IMHO, they would release almost nothing to the general developers, much less a sample implementation to be ported. It's almost impossible to develop for: you need a souped up MAC, a developer PDA, etc... (I'm talking about Magic Cap (the OS) development in which I think the language was called Telescript.) Compared to a powerful Unix development environment (if and when it gets ported to Linux, HPUX, or SGI that I use...(no longer in a Sun shop), it really seem awful. It was also very buggy as late as mid last year. OTOH, I wrote a piece of software that interprets the raw async data from satellite and chops it into articles. (Reuters special feed for Magic Cap clients...) sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH (FBI ID) sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Consultant, Vienna,VA Mar95- 703-918-1491W 43392 Wayside Cir.,Ashburn, VA 22011 OO/Unix/Comm/NN ICBM/GPS: 39 02 37N, 77 29 16W home, 38 54 04N, 77 15 56W Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.;28May95