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To: stak who wrote (12455)	11/22/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: rudedog	of 74651

stak - The goal here is a very sensible one and has been something MSFT has been working towards since before Win95. The first step is creation of a common API set for Win32 apps - close at the moment and more likely with NT5. Next step is get to a common kernel base. The kernel for NT5 is only about 10MB and represents about 8M lines of code. The commonly referred to 50M lines (or 40M or whatever) is everything that might go into any version of NT5. The layout of the products appears to be: Base kernel plus a set of components to support current consumer functionality. This is 'Janus'. It should be smaller and a lot more reliable than current Win98. an NT Workstation product. This may get split into 2 products - a standard version and a professional version. This version will support advanced memory and display options and high performance I/O which may appear in high end workstation hardware but not in standard desktops. This would be a larger footprint than Janus but smaller than the server products. The base server - essentially like NTS today but limited to 2 processor configurations (or 4 if upgrading from current NTS). This may become 4 way standard before release. the 'advanced' server - this will include some clustering capability and will support at least 4 and maybe 8 processor configurations. the 'datacenter' server - supports up to 32 processor systems and has a bunch of bundled pieces. So the consumer OS will just be a smaller, faster, more reliable version of what we currently have - maybe Dan's 'sucks less' OS.

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