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Tim Bradshaw tfb at tfeb.org
Tue Jun 26 21:29:27 AEST 2018


> On 25 Jun 2018, at 21:47, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't bet that (the C version of) PMDF was reimplemented in Java just because the name contained Java.  I seem to recall Sun putting Java in the name of many products at the time.

This is true: Java was (they thought) so important that they labelled everything with it.  They changed the stock symbol from SUNW to JAVA at some point, even.  That has to be a really good example of fiddling while Rome burns.



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