Xah Lee's Unixism
jmfbahciv at aol.com
jmfbahciv at aol.com
Fri Sep 3 06:51:21 EDT 2004
In article <41376DCA.B833324A at yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer <cbfalconer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>John Thingstad wrote:
>>
>.... snip ...
>>
>> These peaple had more than a 100 years of experience in
>> developing muliuser / mutitasking operating systems between
>> them. The fact that the NT kernel is not entirely stable yet
>> really shouldn't supprise anyone. Afterall Unix has messed
>> with it's kernel for 30 years. But the modular arcitecture
>> and the microkernel are new ideas in OS design and should in
>> time lead to a more extensible OS than unix.
>
>The original NT (3.0) was well designed, but slow on the hardware
>of the time. Then MS got to work increasing module connectivity
>and reducing reliability.
V3? I thought V4 was their last good one before they started to
put apps into execmode.
<snip>
/BAH
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