Quoting moogs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
Also, Intel did embrace RISC in a rather peculiar way. Intel was able to grasp
that RISC isn't limited to a traditional CPU design but can be used as
a design
methodology that can also be applied in instruction sets. Take for
instance the
Pentium III and Pentium 4. While both are CISC chips, internally these CPU's
use RISC-like op-codes.
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
(;.
You hit the money there. As many users are already very familiar with
the Win32
look and feel, along with many developers already doing Win32, it was
only time
that their management would bring their "award-winning formula" to NT. Having
Win32 relegated as a subsystem like POSIX and OS/2 would definitely incur a
performance penalty (as Win32 itself is just an abstraction of MS' unpublished
system calls) hence the "need" to bolt Win32 directly to the kernel.
As unfortunate as it may seem, Win32 itself isn't really fully-32bit, as many
legacy programs were written in 16bit...
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Paolo Alexis Falcone
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