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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


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