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To: Arthur Tang who wrote (64183)	5/1/2007 11:06:13 AM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

What I don't understand, are "you" WE or ME ?

To: Arthur Tang who wrote (64183)	5/1/2007 1:35:24 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

It was done by signing up for auto-update and eventually lead to the development of Vista, away from extension of WinXp which was WinNT, which was Berkley unix(BSD) origin(xserver ethernet network but based on Win95 OS and GUI). If one tries to distill the factual assertions out of this utter pile of gibberish, you may find the statement that Windows NT was based somehow on Berkeley Unix. This is a completely false statement. Microsoft would probably be the last company in the world that would want to use any aspect of any flavor of Unix in their code. Windows NT/2000/XP kernel architecture was written from scratch by a team whose leadership was hired away from DEC and headed by a man named Dave Cutler. While at DEC, Cutler was responsible for the design and initial development of the highly-regarded VAX VMS operating system. He had nothing important to do with Berkeley Unix. However, VMS was not a microkernel system. Another nonsense fragment that can be dug out of Arthur Tang's post is that "XP...does not have microkernels". By the time he arrived at Microsoft, David Cutler had been heavily influenced by concepts from the ground-breaking Carnegie Mellon microkernel project called Mach. As a result, Windows NT was conceived from scratch as a microkernel-based OS. All of NT's descendents including XP and Vista are microkernel implementations. Dozens or perhaps hundreds of mass-market computer books and articles have been published that describe this microkernel starting at a layman's level. The Microsoft NT family's microkernel foundation is so elementary a fact that anyone claiming to know anything at all about contemporary operating systems would be familiar with it. Arthur Tang, however, seems to be unaware of it. Side note: Rick Rashid, the principal developer of the Mach microkernel while a Carnegie Mellon professor, was subsequently hired by MSFT and is now their head of research (or some similar top technical job). Arthur Tang fabricates false historical facts for reasons of his own. The only bright side, if there is one, is that his language is so impenetrable that it actually requires more effort to get at the falsehoods than the average reader is probably willing to devote. --QS