the NT kernel and the OS argument

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kcmunchkin

i really wouldn't consider myself a "superuser" when it comes to
windows. i have fixed a lot of problems with xp machines that others
around me found baffling, though. i've tinkered with the registry and
played with the services...

i worked for apple for four months. i was forced...out of apple's
spite, i think...to use a mac mini for eight hours a day running
tiger. interesting os. very toy-like.

it's interesting to read john dvorak's columns regarding vista and ms-
dos and unix and cp/m...any even os x here and there. what's the
difference between an os and a file loader, anyway? dos on my atari
800 xl was really only used to format disks...kickstart on my amiga
1000 seemed to be just a "file loader" as dvorak refers to ms-dos.

my curiousity is this:

what's the NT kernel like? when someone makes an argument regarding
osx and windows, it seems to me that the buck really has to stop with
the efficiency and utility of the kernel itself. everything else just
seems to be window dressing...in this osx and vista age.

thx all...
 
R

Rock

i really wouldn't consider myself a "superuser" when it comes to
windows. i have fixed a lot of problems with xp machines that others
around me found baffling, though. i've tinkered with the registry and
played with the services...

i worked for apple for four months. i was forced...out of apple's
spite, i think...to use a mac mini for eight hours a day running
tiger. interesting os. very toy-like.

it's interesting to read john dvorak's columns regarding vista and ms-
dos and unix and cp/m...any even os x here and there. what's the
difference between an os and a file loader, anyway? dos on my atari
800 xl was really only used to format disks...kickstart on my amiga
1000 seemed to be just a "file loader" as dvorak refers to ms-dos.

my curiousity is this:

what's the NT kernel like? when someone makes an argument regarding
osx and windows, it seems to me that the buck really has to stop with
the efficiency and utility of the kernel itself. everything else just
seems to be window dressing...in this osx and vista age.

I suggest you do some research on Google and get a copy of the latest
edition of "Microsoft Windows Internals" by Mark Russinovich et al.
 

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