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On 2005-02-12 14:03, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
>> How exactly does one do this when the NT kernel code isn't available
>> for perusal?
>
> One gains access to the kernel code.

Hmmm, how?

> However, just observing the systems and studying their design tells a
> lot as well.  The NT kernel is very well designed.

Very little can be said about a black box system.  Even then, a great
deal of this little stuff is purely hypothetical and based on a lot of
unproven assumptions.  Assumptions which may be true for version 3.14
of said software but fail miserably with 3.15.

Now, when this is compared to something that is documented, clearly and
visibly, in an open source tree... we can see why the apparent stability
of NT is worth very little :-(