Re: Java on the Apple2 and C64

["Leif Bloomquist" <spam@127.0.0.600>]

"iAN CooG" <iancoog@despammed.com> wrote in message 
news:I0Jui.83553$%k.226986@twister2.libero.it...

> Ok, I missed it too, can you please show us what is the point, apart that
> "it can be done"?

Why do we do *anything* on the old 8-bits?  Anything we do as part of this 
hobby (apart from preservation) could be done much, much easier on modern 
PCs.

I think the Japanese art of Chindogo captures it nicely:

"Chindogu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, 
on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. 
However, Chindogu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to 
use one of these inventions, would find that it causes so many new problems, 
or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility 
whatsoever. Thus, Chindogu are sometimes described as 'unuseless' - that is, 
they cannot be regarded as 'useless' in an absolute sense, since they do 
actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot 
positively be called 'useful'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindogu

-Leif

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