Re: NT vs. UNIX

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From: muzaffer kal
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:42

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> Then again, somebody claimed Dave Cutler said that a paper was given on
> NT at the USENIX "Microkernel and other" conference because it was an
> "other", not because it was microkernel-based....
> 
> (How big *are* the "microkernels" - i.e., no UNIX or Windows API, no
> file systems, no networking, etc., just the raw base atop which the
> aforementioned are built - in Mach 3.0 or NT?  I.e., how "micro" are
> they?)

nt is not the only ukernel. next is a ukernel implementation also. it is 
mach dependent. nt is definitely ukernel and i think the kernel is less than 
60k. everything else is implememented as dll. nt ukernel doesn't even 
include the executive.
muzaffer

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