[from Gary Cziko]
Bill Leach 951115.22:05 U.S. Eastern Time Zone said:
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I suppose that there are some people running Pentium systems out there
but has anyone run any of the PCT Demos on such a box?
Last night I ran the various demos from Dag Forssell PCT Demo disk. The
demos literally run too fast to really be able to watch!
What we really need is to convert these demos to Java so that they can be
run off the World Wide Web on any machine anyone might have. Anybody out
there with the expertise and interest on doing this?--Gary
<[Bill Leach 951116.06:23 U.S. Eastern Time Zone]
[Gary Cziko]
What we really need is to convert these demos to Java so that they can
be run off the World Wide Web on any machine anyone might have. Anybody
out there with the expertise and interest on doing this?--Gary
Well now there is one extreme to the other! Running them off the web
would make a Sinclair Z80 look like a Cray.
Though it might still be worth trying (for those that happen to have web
access) even if I do doubt that the data path bandwidth would be far too
small to allow the demos to work effectively.
-bill
What we really need is to convert these demos to Java so that they can
be run off the World Wide Web on any machine anyone might have. Anybody
out there with the expertise and interest on doing this?--Gary
Well now there is one extreme to the other! Running them off the web
would make a Sinclair Z80 look like a Cray.
A misunderstanding, perhaps. Java represents a <virus-risky>
technology where the *executable* program resides on the client
machine, not on the host (network) machine. With a 100 to 200 MIPS
system (a typical Pentium/Power-PC) desktop computer, the results
could be quite spectacular.
--R
----Richard Plourde --rplourde@scoot.netis.com
What we really need is to convert these demos to Java so that they can
be run off the World Wide Web on any machine anyone might have. Anybody
out there with the expertise and interest on doing this?--Gary
Well now there is one extreme to the other! Running them off the web
would make a Sinclair Z80 look like a Cray.
A misunderstanding, perhaps. Java represents a <virus-risky>
technology where the *executable* program resides on the client
machine, not on the host (network) machine. With a 100 to 200 MIPS
system (a typical Pentium/Power-PC) desktop computer, the results
could be quite spectacular.
--R
----Richard Plourde --rplourde@scoot.netis.com
Rick Marken and Richard Plourde assert that JAVA is virus risky. This is
not completely accurate; JAVA is security risky but not particularly virus
risky. JAVA is interpreted; that is, the interpreter runs on the client and
interprets and executes code downloaded from the host. The interpreter
does not allow the low-level access needed for traditional viruses, so the
virus risk is not great. Since JAVA allows for two-way communication,
it _may_ be possible for someone with less than honourable intent to use
JAVA to spy on or steal information from the client system. Note that, all
things equal, it is probably a greater virus risk to download (ftp) a demo
than to run it with JAVA, since the downloaded code will have much
greater access to machine facilities. On the other hand, downloaded code
obviously has little risk of spying on or stealing information from the client,
since it is not running on line.
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