Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
In paper, NT was great (many subsystems support such as POSIX, Win32, OS/2,
VMS, etc, then the original portability goal, fine-grained ACL's, microkernel
design, multi-threaded execution) but in reality, a horrible mess as its
team had to lean back and incorporate many very stupid decisions from
management.
Stupid from a security point of view.
But they won the market. Kinda like the old battle between RISC and CISC
(particularly Intel's) processors. RISC is the clear winner technology-wise, but
Intel got the bucketloads of money.
Bill (naks, close kami!) probably made those decisions so that WinNT would be
faster! meaner! and all. (I dont really know the whole story). After all, a lot
of users plain don't care. We just want Doom to crank out more fps'es, watch a
DVD without skipping; or my player telling me to put in some command line
options to tweak performance (;.
Windows is instant noodles. Bad for you, but convenient.
Now linux...linux is a kitchen.
(poor guy recovering from a hard drive crash.)
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