Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:32:00 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001106173200.C19456@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <000201c04837$07d4ed90$66c6ddd1@STORK>; from stork@QNET.COM on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:17:55PM -0800 References: <20001105170419.O5112@fw.wintelcom.net> <000201c04837$07d4ed90$66c6ddd1@STORK>
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:17:55PM -0800, Heredity Choice wrote: > At least I don't think so, but I once read that WINNT uses the Mach > microkernel, which has a license very similar to the GPL. Can anybody > comment? Windows NT has ever used the Mach kernel. You probably read some comparisons between the design of the Windows NT Executive and the Mach kernel -- the latter because Mach was/is the best-known microkernel system. The Windows NT Executive is not a microkernel, but more of a hybrid, much like Darwin is (although Darwin actually _does_ use Mach code). -- 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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