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- From: neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:34:29 +1000
- Message-ID: <neilo-3103962034290001@d53-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>
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- In article <1504.6660T1391T2901@es.co.nz>, bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer) wrote:
-
- > Seems windows NT has had some success - but look at it system demands. What
- > I purpose, perhaps, is a NT beater for the 'rest of us'. Run it here, run
- > it there, run it anywhere. Done well, it'd be able to emulate other os's,
- > or run them as tasks.
-
- The WindowsNT microkernel demands little by way of RAM and CPU power. It
- is as efficient as Exec in may ways, and superior in others.
-
- Where NT falls down is in the superstructures needed for Windows apps to
- run. According to the book "Showstopper", there are bulk cludges needed
- for a lot of software that breakes the rules. It was this, emulating the
- bugs in Win3.1, and an inefficient graphics subsystem that blew NT to the
- requirements that it needs today.
-
- From readingsome of the NT developer docs, AmigaDOS, intuition and the
- like could quite happily be dropped onto the NT kernel, and run native.
- Imagine the power of such a system!
-
- Neil O'Rourke
- neilo@m140.aone.net.au
-
- "Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files
-