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To: Pink Minion who wrote (16578)	1/22/1998 2:50:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

And now for something completely different: AN ON TOPIC POST. (I just thought I should warn you. :) My hat is off to the MSFT PR department this week! Somehow, they got DSL, which is 5 year old preannounced news to most of us in the business, and which they didn't develop, and which they won't implement, and which won't be here for a long while to come, on the nightly news in SF as a lead story last night! They announced that they (along with some group of other companies) would support DSL standards efforts. It made the business section of the Chronicle too. Can somebody tell me if there is any meat there, or is this announcement the thin gruel it appears to be? And following their product announcement that they would 'support in Windows '98' having more than one monitor, something there has been de facto in DOS and windows since '85, I'm inclined to ask, why all the vapour? Isn't there anything better than that for them to announce? And why now? Has anybody heard of any really new product coming either from NSCP or MSFT in 1998? Are both of these companies stuck in the mud? I have questions. I know you have answers. Chaz

To: Pink Minion who wrote (16578)	1/22/1998 3:05:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>There is no reason to "integrate" application code into the OS. In fact, this is the main reason why is crashes so much.<<< Interestingly, the Microsoft book, 'Inside NT', which was written from the design for NT back in '92, makes a great deal out of the fact that NT was designed to keep the GUI implenentation details out of the kernel space for security and reliability. A lot of NT purists who used to brag on this point, like me, really had to barf when they 'integrated' the Win95 GUI into NT 4, 'for speed.' (NT 4 is slower than 3.51) You can imagine the reaction to the idea of 'integrating' the browser GUI from IE into the OS memory and call space. Loose as a goose. Chaz