JavaSoft offers a new future to DOS desktops

JavaSoft has an answer to all those last generation PCs that still run DOS: turn them into Network Computers. The company will release a product this year--code-named "Operation Rescue"--that consists of the JavaOS, the Java Virtual Machine, and HotJava

Paul Thurrott

February 9, 1997

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JavaSoft has an answer to all those last generation PCs that still run DOS: turn them into Network Computers. The company will release a product this year--code-named "Operation Rescue"--that consists of the JavaOS, the Java Virtual Machine, and HotJava Views, a new technology that enables a DOS-based machine to support a Java graphical user interface and run JavaOS applications.

Operation Rescue is expected to be a big hit with companies still using the millions of legacy machines in existence. I think I hear a cash register ringing

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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