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02/08/2001 Archived Entry: "Athena"

Rocklyte Systems are creating a cross-platform runtime environment thing called Athena. It sits on top of an existing OS (currently Linux, but other ports are promised) and takes control of the GUI, with its own scripting languages, object system, blah blah blah. Semi-promising, but not likely to have the developer support needed to be anything other than a curio, especially since it isn't open source (if it was starting on Windows that wouldn't be so much of a problem).