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> > Has somebody put some dreadful net-dependant startup code in recently?

If I had the mentality I did in 1998 or so, the heyday of Microsoft bashing, I would've said that Windows put in some malicious inner loops to slow Squeak and Java down, in the hopes of migrating developers to the "faster" .NET architecture. :)

But I was pretty immature then...

-- 
Jeff Read <bitwize at snet.net>
If God wrote in LISP code, then Jesus wrote in
Smalltalk, hence, water become: wine.