> Windows initially sat on top of DOS... "Initially". ?? Still does :-)
> The way I see it - .NET will eventually, somehow, become the platform itself > (maybe 64-bit). As a bytecode interpreter? So I am going to write my services/databases etc for a virtual machine? Something other than assembler has to hold this thing together. I guess we could see the native OS as a collection of "web services" (but boy, that adds a lot of layers) and have a mechanism for writing "native web services". ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/