Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro!objtch From: objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Peter Goodall) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Object oriented alliance rumors Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 08:49:54 GMT References: <1991Jan28.061715.29290@tandem.com> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au ernest@dsg.tandem.com (Ernest Hua) writes: >I heard some weeks back that Microsoft is cooking up some deal with several >software vendors to put together a fully object oriented environment standard >that will permit software to accept future data types and enhancements without >prior knowledge of their nature. This is, of course, the one of the basic >ideas behind object oriented systems, but my question is ... ... things deleted. I also here similar rumours from IBM for PM. ---------------------------- Peter Goodall Smalltalk Systems Consultant ObjecTech P/L 162 Burns Bay Rd, LANE COVE , NSW, AUSTRALIA objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au