[sureshv]

Few more missed include (Device CLR's were in C, Desktop/Server in C++):

(1) CLR for Sony/Ericsson phone OS and (2) Variant running on linux (in 2001/2002).

I worked on the Compact Framework team back in the day so there's a few more things to point out related to the internal politics of Microsoft at the time.

The devices strategy was a mess even back then due to Alchin/Valentine/Ballmers love of Windows desktop 'everywhere'. Windows and Office dominated the company so things like .Net were always going to be secondary to that.

The origins of the CLR can be found in the purchase of Colusa in 1996 which had the Omni VM for running C++ in a sandbox. The original C# language was called cool and came from that project.

[matthewwarren]

> The origins of the CLR can be found in the purchase of Colusa in 1996 which had the Omni VM for running C++ in a sandbox. The original C# language was called cool and came from that project.

Thanks, I'd heard about 'cool', but I didn't know the part about Omni VM, that's interesting to know

[dusanbab]

Was the framework you mentioned in (1) a Microsoft project, or something else?

As a matter of interest, what did you do on the CF team?

[sureshv]

Worked in the Compact CLR Execution Engine, IL Verifier, and other stuff. On (1) both were done at MS but ended up as proof of concept.

Post Sathya Microsoft has moved to a more open model, hence the full blown CLR on Linux.