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From: Hasko Heinecke <hasko@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: A "Universal Virtual Machine"
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Alan Lovejoy wrote:
> 
> Quote from article at
> <http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97044.wuvm.htm>:
> 
> "IBM, in conjunction with Taligent, has begun a research effort
> intended to create a single virtual machine capable of running
> applications written in C++, Smalltalk, or Java, said John Slitz,
> vice president of application development marketing for IBM's
> Software Solutions Division, in Armonk, N.Y."
> 
> --
> Alan L. Lovejoy         | Why Smalltalk?
> Smalltalk Consultant    | Because I don't want to follow the crowd,
> alovejoy@concentric.net | but to lead it.

Oh, they dropped the final sentence: "It's code-named 386." ;-)

Hasko
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