Hi Martin,
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:42:17PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > Note that both OSF and NT are based on Mach technology
>
> Just to disturb an urban legend: Windows NT is *not* based on Mach
> technology.
That is interesting, although, I find it hard to believe that you are
correct. If you recall, around 1986 when microsoft was interested in
developing an enterprise operating system, that which eventually became NT,
they hired David Cutler, a DEC employee and the primary architecture of NT.
He readily admits that the design was heavily influenced by his experience
with VMS and his research with CMU's Mach.
Later, Richard Rashid, the effective head of the Mach research group at CMU,
and many of his cohorts, including Richard Draves, were hired by Microsoft
to help develop the NT kernel.
Ignoring these people, one can just look under the hood of NT: it is clear
that many of the techniques developed by the CMU Mach group are present.
I feel that once you have taken a peek, it will be hard to ignore its
microkernel heritage.
-Neal
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