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Re: Mach vs. NT?

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From: gip2 course
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:33
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In <BzG3Gw.1s6@alsvid.une.edu.au> mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859) writes:

>From article <1992Dec12.000250.14799@microsoft.com>, by jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw):
>> 
>> In article  <Bz2LFA.7qM@eis.calstate.edu>,
>> cwilder@eis.calstate.edu (Charlotte Wilder) writes...
>> |
>> | I don't know if NT is "loosely" based on Mach, but I do know that NT will
>> | be a microkernel based operating system.  
>> 
>> I think it would be safer to say that NT is "loosely based on
>> Mach concepts" since some of the ideas (like a microkernel
>> architecture) carry over.  NT also has a variety of subsystems

>	WindowsNT is based on the Mach3.0 micro kernel!!!!!!!!

Any references?

>	1. such a discussion is null and void since mach is not an
>		operating system, and WindowNT is!

Mach is an operating system, but not a 'complete' OS. I.e. it doesn't do
everything but only several things.

>	2. even worse, mach is part of windowsNT 

Again, can you give any proof?

>	1. Go and do some reading before hitting the keyboard with replies

Read what?
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