Harvard vs. vonNeuman - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Sep 2004

At 05:07 PM 9/28/2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
...
 To the best of my knowledge, the Microsoft .NET
platform is the first
run-time environment [not development environment] in which a compiler,
linker and all of the associated capabilities are included. If you have a
windows machine [XP, 2K] and have applied the windowsupdates, then all of
these tools are already resident on your machines!  
I guess that would explain why it's a 20 or 30 meg download, 
once you've got the main system and the 11 meg patches.
And they're pushing it out as fast as they can - it's part
of WinXP SP2, no?

- John