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That was a Microsoft project called "rotor" [1]. It was a shared source .NET implementation on Free BSD and Mac OS X, but it wasn't licenced for commercial use.
by andyjohnson0 12y ago
That was a Microsoft project called "rotor" [1]. It was a shared source .NET implementation on Free BSD and Mac OS X, but it wasn't licenced for commercial use.
Today's announcement is the real thing.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_Infrastructure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_I...
- ghuntley 12y agoCorrect, rotor was a reference implementation shared by Microsoft when they released the CLR specification into the community. It was extremely, extremely basic and the GC was horrible. :-)
- jbverschoor 12y agoWeren't all VMs extremely basic back then? :-) I was already using jails on FreeBSD for a while back then. Sometimes it feels like there's no progress in tech, except the widespread acceptance of and interest in technology