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by matthewwarren 2817 days ago
> 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