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The device was named '''Star7''' after a telephone feature activated by '''*7''' on a telephone keypad. The feature enabled users to answer the telephone anywhere. The PDA device itself was demonstrated on September 3, 1992.
In November of that year, the Green Project was spun off to become a wholly owned subsidary of Sun Microsystems, called '''FirstPerson, Inc.'''. The team relocated to Palo Alto. The FirstPerson team was interested in building highly interactive devices and when Time-Warner issued an RFP for a set top box, FirstPerson changed their target and responded with a proposal for set top box platform. However, the cable industry felt that their platform gave too much control to the user and FirstPerson lost their bid to SGI. An additional deal with 3DO for a set top box also failed to materialize. FirstPerson was unable to generate any interest within the cable TV industry for their platform. Following their failures, the company, FirstPerson, was rolled back into Sun.
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== Additional Information ==
'''See also:'''
* [[Comparison of Java to Cplusplus|Comparison of Java to C++]]
* [[Java humor]]
'''External Links:'''
* [[http://java.sun.com/features/1998/05/birthday.html|Java(TM) Technology: The Early Years]]
* [[http://java.sun.com/people/jag/green/index.html|A Brief History of the Green Project]]
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