Hi Neil! :-)

 NH> 1)  .net programs run on a virtual machine that so far only Microsoft 
 NH> produces.  Since MS only supports development on one platform 
 NH> (Windows, which runs only on a little-endian Intel or work-alike).
There is also the Mono framework (www.go-mono.com), which supports a wider
range of operating systems and architectures. It's a free implementation of
.NET.

Ciao
Pascal

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