Do you think that they wrote the thing expressly for game console applications or perhaps they had a research idea and later found an application? Are we not talking about the same Inferno from Bell Labs?

Anyway I think I was describing a broader topic than Inferno. Eg. There was the singularity project at Microsoft that people spoke similarly about. Maybe Midori too? The latter may have moved away from the jit idea, there is some writing online about it that I have not read.