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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:
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> 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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