On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:17:09PM +0800, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:44:13AM +0800, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. wrote:
> > > It is also their downfall. They are too tied down to the ia32 paltform.
> > > We will not beat microsoft now. That will happen when ia32 loses
> > > dominance. They are scrambling now to make sure that ia32 will dominate
> > 
> > Quite the contrary, they're going to their CLR (Common Language Runtime)
> > to ensure that the hardware doesn't matter.  That's the whole idea, send
> > around byte code instead of machine code.
> > 
> 
> Thats interesting. Maybe linux should also do that. How woud directx
> work then?

The same way it does now.  Compiling to byte code doesn't mean that you
give up the ability to call API functions.

Michael
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