Date: 07 Apr 2001 20:55:41 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> Cc: "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: <xzphf007d5e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Dale Chulhan - Home's message of "Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:26:53 -0400" References: <3ACF5BED.86A4FB58@uwi.tt>
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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. > 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
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