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Re:The .NET Native Tool-Chain by pjmlp on Saturday May 10, 2014 @01:24PM (#7726142)
The Wikipedia mentions 2003 and we can assume there was already work going on before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system...

Although the first published papers are indeed from 2004.

Re:The .NET Native Tool-Chain by gsnedders on Saturday May 10, 2014 @01:31PM (#7726175)
Work on LLVM started in 2000, FWIW.