From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 7 11:55:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C42937B43C for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA77998; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:55:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Dale Chulhan - Home Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" , My List , The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) References: <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Apr 2001 20:55:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: Dale Chulhan - Home's message of "Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:26:53 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dale Chulhan - Home writes: > The following is part of some cross fire passing tru another news group: > Any comments? Not much, except: > Dick, Windows NT was based on VMS not UNIX. In fact UNIX and Windows > 2000/NT are very different. Windows uses a micro kernel > architecture, UNIX uses a monolithic kernel. Unix does not use a monolithic kernel. Most Unix implementations do, but there's no reason why you couldn't implement Unix on top of a microkernel, and in fact, Apple have done just that with OS X. > That is why you have to recompile/reload the kernel when you add a > driver. This is unlike Windows 2000 where drivers can be loaded and > unloaded automatically. Most modern Unix implementations (including Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris) can load and unload drivers without needing to recompile the kernel or even reboot. > In fact, you can change IP Addresses on Windows 2000 and you do not > need to reboot. This is also very unlike most versions of UNIX. No Unix implementation I know of has ever needed to reboot to change the IP address. > In fact, the Windows interface was a Xerox idea that Apple > "borrowed" and was handed to Microsoft on a silver platter. Do you > know how long after that the first windows version of UNIX came up? > In fact they even chose to call it X-Windows. Today, of all the > mainstream Operating Systems, UNIX still has the slowest Windows > interface. That's because X runs in user space, not in kernel space like Windows' GUI does - which is why if X crashes, it doesn't bring down the entire machine with it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message