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- Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!mikesw
- From: mikesw@microsoft.com (Mike Swift)
- Subject: Re: More Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.202438.7357@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 20:24:38 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec31.055712.627@netcom.com> <C06HKy.4qI@research.canon.oz.au>
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- In article <C06HKy.4qI@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
- >esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:
- >>Is Microsoft going to user(for lack of a better term)-written servers
- >>or publish the interface between the servers and the NT executive. Is
- >>the interface well-defined or was it determined in an ad-hoc fashion
- >>that arose as Microsft implemented their servers?
- >
- >I and several others posted this question to one of the comp.sys.windows
- >groups frequented by Microsoft staffers. No answer was forthcoming. It
- >would be nice to get at the kernel, seems quite reasonable underneath.
- >
- >--
- >Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
-
- I've heard it rumored that Microsoft wants NT to replace Mach in academia,
- and might be willing to release the source code to academic sites.
-
- I'm not a spokeperson for Microsoft, though, and don't have any idea what
- the official plans are.
-
- - Mike
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