<OT> Some interesting java news

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You can actually download the same java software (Maestro) and test it 
out yourself.  I don't know what platform they're running it on, but on 
my Linux box it was dog-slow, and bloated as all hell.  Basically, 
standard java.

On 01/10/04 12:04, Joel Hammer wrote:

> This from the Wall Street Journal. (It requires $$ registration, so I
> pasted it below.)
> 
> Joel
> 
> Sun Shines on Mars
> 
> Mars rotates around the Sun, but geeks at Sun are dancing in circles
> over their pivotal role in the latest expedition to the Red Planet.
> 
> Let's face it, the folks at Sun Microsystems have not had much to
> celebrate the last couple of years. But when the six-wheeled Mars rover
> "Spirit" landed on the planet's frigid surface last week, a cheer could
> be heard from Sun's base on earth in Santa Clara, Calif.
> 
> The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena rely on
> Sun's Java software to control the rover on Mars some 100 million miles
> away. Java -- a programming language designed to generate applications
> that can run on all hardware platforms without much modification -- was
> used by NASA for its control systems on the ground. The software's open
> and flexible qualities were a good fit for the myriad applications and
> network protocols required to build a system that allows a robotic buggy
> to be steered and maneuvered on the surface of another planet, says Sun
> Chief Technology Officer James Gosling.
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