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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!news.intercon.com!panix!netnews!acf2!haggerty From: haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu (haggerty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Date: 18 Jul 1993 04:57:43 GMT Organization: New York University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <22al87$f0l@calvin.NYU.EDU> References: <1993Jul7.222018.20816@dbsoftware.com> <1993Jul09.195833.14745@news.mentorg.com> <C9xnM3.D4B@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: acf2.nyu.edu mike@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Michael Chapman) writes: >In article <1993Jul09.195833.14745@news.mentorg.com> kendall_auel@mentorg.com writes: >>Check out the chapter on the "Kernel" in _Inside_Windows_NT_. The >>introduction does a pretty good job of bashing UNIX, and claiming >>that NT will avoid all those problems that UNIX has. What are we >>supposed to think about NT now that we know it actually has one of >>those horrible problem-ridden UNIX Kernels??? >Does it use Mach? Mach isn't Unix. No, NT does not use Mach, but Inside NT claims that alot of the NT stuff is borrowed(read - stolen) from Mach. From what I've seen of NT, to say that it is derived from Mach is giving it far too much credit in the way of design. Mach is a TRUE microkernel, IMO NT isn't (but there are those who would disagree). -Bruce (haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu)