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Date:      Sat, 6 Dec 2008 03:04:21 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows
Message-ID:  <20081206030421.5bf4ceeb@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081205193550.E2916@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <0016e64ca7d690e38f045d45227d@google.com> <20081205083457.283d3deb@tau> <20081205193550.E2916@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:36:45 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was
> > surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually
> > quite nice, and
> 
> whatever ideas/solutions microsoft do it's f..ked up or stolen.
> the stolen case is actually better :)

They poached VMX developers from DEC and got sued over it IIRC. From
what I've read it's supposed to be a pretty good hybrid kernel.




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