And another thing...
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
From the tiny marketer level, its because it will spell the death of Ticketmaster. We can show you where your seat is in the stadia or arena. We can then sell you the ticket on a secure socket. And then let you print the ticket on your own printer.
The economics of this are fantastic. Love Always, Carol Anne On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Phil Fraering asked with insight:
Why is Java the next hot thing instead of Telescript?
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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
(I'm talking about Magic Cap (the OS) development in which I think the language was called Telescript.)
I spent a lot of time talking to them.. While there was some telescript embedded in Magic Cap, Telescript was (and I think still is) a seperate Networking/Server product. /hawk
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