FRAMINGHAM (09-29-95) - Sun Microsystems Inc. has edged closer to marketing a portable device for Internet access. It announced last week that it would codevelop portable devices with Toshiba Corp. in Tokyo. Toshiba will build a prototype personal digital assistant for its sales force, combining Toshiba's handheld devices with Sun's Java object-oriented language for Internet applications, Hot Java browser and Netra servers.
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