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Foil 17 Some Further Topics of Importance

From Overview of CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age 1997 Basic Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
(Prepared for SC96)
Security -- Essential for many banking and shopping applications
  • Also very important to Department of Defense who would add fault tolerance (the system can be guaranteed to work) to classic encryption security technologies
The PC World which has typically better software than UNIX such as:
  • Symantec Cafe and Microsoft Visual J++ as a Java Development Environment
  • Faster Java (Just in Time) Compilers than UNIX
  • Better multimedia support
Specialized services and applications such as collaboration, computing, education, intranets which are built from Java JavaScript Databases etc.
Compression Technologies

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