Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?q?Android=97Why?= Dalvik? Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:34:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <71dqu6phe1ra5p9hdqn699k3hit7v999u9@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1307453691 11771 84.45.235.129 (7 Jun 2011 13:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:34:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5068 On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:14:31 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:01:22 -0700, BGB wrote: >>it is much like if one used the term "Windows" to describe every OS, >>including Linux and MacOSX, rather than a more generic term, like OS... > > Yes, and I bet that happens, too. > Too right. I remember some boob on the UK Y2K newsgroup who refused to believe that there were any computers still in use in 1999 that weren't PCs. I don't think we ever convinced him that mainframes and UNIX servers, let alone Macs, were in daily use, but at least he finally shut up and vanished. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |