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Re:Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on th... by tptacek on Monday December 08, 2008 @07:39PM (#390676)
Your coworker doesn't really understand ActiveX; ActiveX controls execute unchecked native x86 code with full access to the system call table. NaCL falls somewhere in between VMWare and the Java Bytecode Verifier.
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Re:Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on th... by tlrobinson on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:15PM (#390810)
I like your abbreviation for it, but that's not an official name, right? Are you just hoping it will catch on?

I'll join you in calling it NaCl.

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Re:Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on th... by tptacek on Monday December 08, 2008 @10:16PM (#390881)
They used it in the paper.
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Re:Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on th... by riobard on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:21PM (#390820)
NaCl is the chemical name for salt, right? :P
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