Xah Lee's Unixism

[CBFalconer]

John Thingstad wrote:
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> 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.  This is the usual premature
optimization bug, together with planned obsolescence.  The result
is an unmaintainable mess.

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