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- From: danh@quantum.qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Re: Please move the WINDOWS/NT discussion?
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 18:52:16 GMT
- Organization: Quantum Software Systems
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- In article <190isrINNsco@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> rminnich@super.super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
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- >I have to date heard one technical tidbit:
- >it is a "micro-kernel", but the rest of the important stuff is in a very
- >large blob that sits just outside the micro-kernel. In other words, process
- >managment, file systems, etc. are in one module.
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- Dave Cutler, at the USENIX Microkernel and Other Kernel Architectures workshop,
- said that Windows NT was in the "Other Kernel Architecture" category. Maybe
- the Microsoft marketing folks have decided otherwise.
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