Stop Using Notepad to edit files - Use WavePad The Java Application - Free
Christopher McKinstry
For Immediate Release:
First Software for Network Computers Released
Winnipeg, Canada, October 22, 1996, 12:00 PM CST- Clickable Systems
International, Ltd. today announced the release of WavePad ™ , the
first text editor designed specifically for diskless, network computers.
A free public domain version is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.clickable.com.
WavePad ™ is a machine independent text editor written in Sun
Microsystems’s Java ™ development language. WavePad ™ is the first of a
series of applications Clickable is developing for the new wave of
network computers "NCs", recently announced by IBM , Sun, Oracle and
others. NCs are designed to replace PCs in the workplace by allowing
users to access central repositories of corporate information stored in
machine independent form. NCs will have no local storage of their own,
no moving parts and have a lower long term operating cost than a
traditional PCs. Using NCs will allow companies to concentrate
development resources on HTML and Java ™ which NCs are designed to run,
instead of machine dependent languages such as PowerBuilder ™ or C++.
"We are confident that NCs will largely replace PCs in the workplace by
early in the next decade." said Clickable President and CEO, Chris
McKinstry. "However we cannot expect such a transition to take place
before a basic applications infrastructure is in place that will give
NCs the current functionality of PCs.
If you were to plug in a prototype NC from IBM, Sun or Oracle right now,
you’d discover it would be largely, a read only machine. Prior to
WavePad ™ if you wanted to create an HTML file for viewing on an NC,
you’d have to do it on a PC or workstation. With WavePad ™ you can now
access, view and modify any text or HTML file using an NC. WavePad ™ is
the first step in giving NCs the functionality of PCs.
We are releasing WavePad ™ now and into the public domain to accelerate
adoption of NCs and software with Java ™ based,
on-demand-user-interfaces. It is a core technology Clickable and its
licensees are using to develop more sophisticated applications such as
word processors, HTML editors and anything else that requires text
editing facilities."
Clickable Systems International, Ltd. is based in Winnipeg, Canada. It
was formed in early 1995 to develop corporate information systems based
on web technology and can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.clickable.com.
Reference URL’s:
WavePad ™:
http://www.clickable.com/WavePad
IBM Network Station
http://www.internet.ibm.com/computers/networkstation/pressrelease.html
Sun Microsystems Java language:
http://java.sun.com
Contact Information:
Chris McKinstry,
President and CEO,
Clickable Systems International, Ltd.
1010-405 Maryland Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3G 1M1
Tel 204-775-6648, Fax 204-783-5927, Email: ch...@clickable.com
Jerry Rowe
In <326C63...@clickable.com>, Christopher McKinstry <ch...@clickable.com> writes:
>For Immediate Release:
>First Software for Network Computers Released
>
>Winnipeg, Canada, October 22, 1996, 12:00 PM CST- Clickable Systems
Matter of fact, I tried it a couple of days ago.
Using OS/2 Warp 4.0, you can run it with:
javapm WavePad
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