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- From: schnee@sail.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT?
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:24:11 GMT
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- Charlotte Wilder (cwilder@eis.calstate.edu) wrote:
- : reissell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Reissell) writes:
- : > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I had the impression that Windows NT
- : > was at least loosely based on mach. The meaning of this is a bit vague
- : > to me, maybe it just means that NT is a microkernel based OS? I too
- : > would like some poijnters on this.
- :
- : I don't know if NT is "loosely" based on Mach, but I do know that NT will
- : be a microkernel based operating system.
-
- Where did you get that info from - the trade rags; tisk tisk, you should
- not believe everything you read unless its from the horses mouth as below:
-
- NT is *not* a microkernel-based OS; NT is *not* based on Mach, nor is
- it blah blah blah; You ask how do I know such things, well, Dave Cutler
- (Microsoft Corporation), and the architect of NT made this observation
- in a speech at the Micro-Kernel Workshop on Monday April, 27 1992. Maybe
- your confusing the Cairo project that Rick Rashid (from CMU, now with
- Microsoft) is currently working on - why don't we speculate on that some
- now....
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