| From: | Gary Peake |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 19:52:39 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Missing pieces |
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:48:18 +0200, owner-open@amiga.com "Juan Carlos
Marcos Rodr�guez" <jcmarcos@datavoice.es> wrote:
>From: philippe.socias@microresearch.be
>
>> when is information about the distributed environment going to be
>> disclosed ? Are we going RPC, Jini, CORBA, something new ?
>
>In the Collas era, there were talks about a new object oriented API for
>distributed programming, dubbed AmigaObjects, if I remember correctly.
>Perhaps that idea came from Jim hiring that folk called Dave Curtis. There
>was also a job offer at Amiga, coming from a certain Blake Ward, calling for
>an OO specialist, that was a year ago.
Some of these ideas actually were Fleecy's. Some were offshoots of Fleecy's
ideas.
>Then, I heard about some internal project called "Andromeda", which in the
>present era, looked like its successor. I miss this piece as much as you,
>and also about Wouter Van Oortmerssen's Sheep scripting language. Are these
>components buried down? Andromeda still has a mailing list in Amiga's
>majordomo mailing list server.
When we can, we will announce new pieces to the DE. SHEEP is a definite and
Wouter is working on it.
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