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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!usenet From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!! Message-ID: <22h3pg$dfl@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> Date: 20 Jul 93 15:42:40 GMT Article-I.D.: europa.22h3pg$dfl References: <22al87$f0l@calvin.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com Distribution: world Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: hengist.lab.oasis.gtegsc.com In article f0l@calvin.NYU.EDU, haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu (haggerty) writes: [does NT use Mach] > 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). It is a macrokernel (like a microkernel but fatter). --- David C. Niemi: David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com If war were a game that a man or a child could think of winning what sort of rule could overthrow a fool and leave the land without stain?