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From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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Greg Ewing wrote:

> John Colagioia wrote:
> > Also, vaguely in the back of my mind, I guess, is wondering what
> > directions the Z-Machine might have grown, had Infocom survived longer.
> A write-once, run-anywhere language with a name
> beginning with Z instead of J, perhaps?

From what I remember of the JVM (being an assembly nut, I looked at it when
it was first published), it bears very little non-superficial resemblance the
the Z-Machine.  The Z-Machine was intended as a very special purpose machine
for the purpose of maximizing distribution to any machine that could possibly
support the initial software, while the JVM was designed to support Java and
be portable to all major, modern machines (into which category PDAs and the
like don't quite fit).

So, I'm going to say "no" on that one...


