Re: Mach vs. NT?

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From: Rick Schneeman
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:24

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Charlotte Wilder (cwilder@eis.calstate.edu) wrote:
: reissell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Reissell) writes:
: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I had the impression that Windows NT
: > was at least loosely based on mach. The meaning of this is a bit vague
: > to me, maybe it just means that NT is a microkernel based OS? I too
: > would like some poijnters on this.
: 
: I don't know if NT is "loosely" based on Mach, but I do know that NT will
: be a microkernel based operating system.  

Where did you get that info from - the trade rags; tisk tisk, you should
not believe everything you read unless its from the horses mouth as below:

NT is *not* a microkernel-based OS; NT is *not* based on Mach, nor is
it blah blah blah; You ask how do I know such things, well, Dave Cutler
(Microsoft Corporation), and the architect of NT made this observation 
in a speech at the Micro-Kernel Workshop on Monday April, 27 1992. Maybe
your confusing the Cairo project that Rick Rashid (from CMU, now with
Microsoft) is currently working on - why don't we speculate on that some
now....

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