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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!scnews.sc.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!chnews!creepy.ch.intel.com!jvrobert From: jvrobert@creepy.ch.intel.com (Jason V. Robertson~) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:09:21 GMT Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <51s99h$12mn@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> <32413ece.157716099@news6.erols.com> <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: creepy.ch.intel.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130371 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27622 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43852 In article <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> writes: >greggd@caddmicro.com wrote: >> > >> While NT was still in development, I had the opportunity to chat with >> one (unnamed - 'cuz he's still there....) of the coders for the NT >> microkernel part of the project....I learned something ironic... >> >> NT is Un*x!! Way down deep in the heart of the os, surrounded >> by tons of extraneous MicroSquish slush....is for all intents and >> purposes, Mach (From CMU). Some might remember Mach as the >> OS that supported the NeXT as NeXTStep. Well, S. Jobs picked >> Mach for the same reason B. Gatez picked it, that being it was easily >> hidden under a layer of crud as to make it something else. > >I think you should have another word with your contact. I think that NT >owes more to VMS kernel design than it does to MACH. It certainly is >nothing like MACH 2.5 which is what Nextstep is. NT uses a microkernel architecture. This has nothing to do with Mach, necessarily, and even less to do with Unix. -- |Jason V. Robertson <jvrobert@sedona.intel.com> | |Not speaking for Intel. |