Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:39:36 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, My List <TheTechies@onelist.com>, The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group <mbug@listbot.com> Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) Message-ID: <20010407163936.B87371@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <xzphf007d5e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:55:41PM %2B0200 References: <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt> <xzphf007d5e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:55:41PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> 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. And just to add, Windows NT does not use a microkernel architecture, either. It is a hybrid, which is now more like a monolithic OS. It is a reasonable trade-off of performance and modularity, though ultimately most decisions were made in favor of performance. See _Inside NT_ by Helen Custer. Hmm, actually I see there is now a 2nd edition, named _Inside Windows NT_. > > Today, of all the > > mainstream Operating Systems, UNIX still has the slowest Windows > > interface. Actually, I find the X Windows interface quite a bit snappier than any version of Windows on the same hardware. Clearly, YMMV. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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