Windows initially sat on top of DOS...
"Initially". ?? Still does :-)
Win9x and WinMe do, yes. And they're both virtually retired by Microsoft. The WinNT line hasn't had anything much to do with DOS, except for the WoW core which allows DOS programs to run in a window.
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".
There are already plenty of layers. The HAL, the APIs, etc. What's one more? :>
Realistically though, I doubt anyone (except MAYBE Microsoft) really wants to see it go that way. Programming "on the metal" is just too much a part of the development culture. The day Microsoft tries to lock us into .NET is the day the hacker community starts finding ways around it.
-- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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