Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Oct 2001 18:16 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews REBOL is a powerful software technology (ever thought that you could write a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in only 7 kb of source code?) designed from the ground up to enable a new era of distributed Internet applications. The technology provides a ubiquitous, lightweight model of distributed computing that operates across all types of computer systems. REBOL is a true distributed computing architecture. Applications and data become distributed across all devices. REBOL is completely device independent, so it does not matter what operating system or hardware is being used. Every system of the Internet becomes an independent resource that can process and communicate information. The REBOL kernel currently runs on more than 40 different operating systems -- everything from large Sun Solaris servers, to Windows and Macintosh PCs, to Linux, BeOS, down to CE handheld devices. And it is here to revolutionize the Internet, by introducing the X Internet (also called as 'XNet') through the REBOL Internet Operating System (IOS). Read more of what Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Tech's CTO and founder, has to say about the future, Rebol and the race against Microsoft's .NET Services.
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Ok.. Need some info
by Sean on Tue 23rd Oct 2001 15:18 UTC

Since apparently everyone here but me is a REBOL worshiper, I've got some questions... (I would look for the answers on my own, but I have to leave in a about 2 minutes, so I figured this would give all of you something to do :-) Can REBOL do audio? Does it support MP3 native? How about more obsure audio formats? If not, is it fast enough to decode it if you wrote the decoder in REBOL itself? What about movies? Can it play sorenson quicktimes? Does it have support for AVI? Once again, you should be able to add in movie support or codec support by writing it in REBOL itself assuming it truely is a complete platform like they say it is. I thought I had some more questions, but I can't think of them now. Gotta run.