It's real deja vu looking at this thread. Many of the questions/comments here are exactly the same ones that came up in the early 1990s with Taos on CiX, and th

It's real deja vu looking at this thread. Many of the questions/comments here are exactly the same ones that came up in the early 1990s with Taos on CiX, and then later with Elate/intent. :) Chris was far ahead of the curve - a heterogeneous, load-balancing, multi-processor, multi-tasking OS, with Object-Oriented Virtual Processor, byte code, load-time translation, support for multiple CPU types (including RISC/CISC/transputer and LE and BE), and tiny footprint message-passing kernel, when most people used MS-DOS 3.3 or DR-DOS 5.0, with Windows 95 still a gleam in Bill Gates's beady eye! Nearly 30 years on and he is still ahead of the curve! p.s. no one has mentioned it yet - try a Google search for "edge tao spyfish". That was 1995!! Not released, but still very interesting reading material.