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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21084)	10/13/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) of 64865

An interesting, if now forgotten fact about Windows NT, is that when it first came out, Microsoft fractured their arms up to the shoulder patting themselves on the back about how modern and state-of-the-modular-microkernel art it was. The ZD press fell all over themselves with huzzahs. Why, there was nothing down there in the kernel at all! It was maybe a couple of lines of code! Everything was a user-level service. Bill G. isn't a religious man, but Dave Cutler & friends had even him believing in miracles. Now, seven years and a few billion blue-screens later, a college-kid's take on the plain old monolithic Unix kernel (Linux) kicks NT's ass around the block on uniprocessor performance, NT doesn't scale worth doodly on SMP's, and best of all, this super-state of the art microkernel has to get rebooted every time you install an application because the button library got updated! (Forget about Solaris' scalable threaded kernel...you couldn't even explain that to Microsoft.) But Windows 2000 will fix all that and the rest of the world's problems too. Yeah whatever, I hope the market doesn't tank too bad. --QS

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