Now, come on George, tell us a little more where the .NET VM did come 
from .....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:38 PM -0800 12/4/00, George Bosworth wrote:
>  >Isn't the .NET technology based on QKS' Smalltalk Agents?
>no.  QKS was one of a number of companies and institutions that ported their
>stuff on top of an early pre-beta version of .NET
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Szuhay [mailto:jeff at szuhay.org]
>Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:53 AM
>To: Squeak Public Maliing List
>Subject: QKS and .NET (was: RE: Pentium 4 tinyBenchmark results)
>
>
>>P.S. Just got the betas of Micro$oft's Visual Studio.NET. 
>>Give me Smalltalk over C# any day!
>
>Isn't the .NET technology based on QKS' Smalltalk Agents?
>
>imagine the "innovation"... taking a now 20 year old technology
>and basing a product strategy on it?
>
>BTW, I was reminded this weekend of the value of longevity of
>certain technologies, in this case film. The remark was that any
>100 year old negative could be used to make a picture. Can we say
>that about computer media?
>
>
>
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>
>    Make things as simple as possible,
>    but not simpler.
>     -- Albert Einstein