PostThisTooFast

VBX controls were the thing that most closely fulfilled the promise of object-oriented programming: "off-the-shelf components that can be used to bolt an application together."

Then there was WordBasic, a Word-specific implementation of Visual Basic that really kicked ass. You could build full applications in the word processor, to do tons of things we take for granted today.

I wondered that too, but isn't that pretty much what pistons are required to be anyway?

It seems like this thing could rev really high, since there's no herky-jerky motion.