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MAJC: Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing Pronounced "magic," it is a CPU architecture from Sun for networked appliances. It is designed to support high-speed processing of music, video and...; Full MAJC Definition >>

Futures and alternatives: The Sun Ray's big strength: server based everything, is also its biggest weakness. For example, home use of Sun Rays works beautifully for most business applications because the bandwidth and server computing loads for those are relatively minor. What happens, however, when the consumer wants to watch a movie is...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Smart Display, Sun Ray; Blog posts 2006-08-04
Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini: Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jiniI was under the impressionthat Jini was just another way of doing device drivers. If what you say is true, then Jini is worse than .NET in being able to explain what it is.Price+perf is what matters, not number of coresCertainly mult-core has been around...; Tags: Java, Microsoft Corp., Jini, MAJC; Discussion threads 2006-03-23

Is Java Windows for Unix?: Java is an incredibly successful toolset - but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? To understand what it is and how it got this way you have to start with the problem it was meant to solve: manufacturers working on...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Unix, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Decisions, Decisions: Suns Piazza died, at least temporarily, with the MAJC desktop dream but has a nice interface: the video caller annoying you just kinda fuzes into reality on your screen and you can slam your virtual office door on him if you want to. Wish I had... ...; Tags: General, Enterprise Policy, Vistabulations; Blog posts 2007-02-22
Scale, language, and perceptional change: For most of us, most of the time, a large file is something in the hundreds of megabytes while a significant database usually has a few tens of gigabytes of real data. In many science applications, however, files start in the gigabyte range and significant databases can start...; Tags: hardware; Blog posts 2007-01-29

Crushing dreams: Its common wisdom that less than one business idea or product per hundred ever makes it to market - so, have you ever wondered what were missing, and why? On the sad but not true side, Im glad to report that at least one of the big four...; Tags: plate, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-01-18
Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini: Right now the MulticoreExpo that's been going on at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California is wrapping up. ARM's John Goodacre, chair of EEMBC Multiprocessing benchmark group, was planning to present a session entitled A technical insight into the EEMBC MP benchmarks that I would have loved to attend....; Tags: Java, Jini, Jini system; Blog posts 2006-03-23