What's the significance of the name "Son of Strike"? Does it serve any meaning or does it just sound cool?
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Mario Hewardt of Microsoft explained with details:
When Microsoft was originally developing .NET 1.0, they had the need for an extension similar to SOS so that they can debug failures within the CLR itself and they used an extension that they developed called Strike. The usefulness of Strike was very apparent, and as Microsoft support engineers would use that extension to figure out customer's problems, customers wanted to get their hands on this particular extension.
Unfortunately, Strike exposed a little too much information about the internals of the CLR, so they ended up creating a slightly trimmed down version of it known as SOS, and that's what's publicly available in your .NET framework installation.
Really cool.
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