From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:02:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:00:38 -0400 Received: from [194.213.32.142] ([194.213.32.142]:11268 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:00:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20010629002710.C525@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:27:10 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: landley@webofficenow.com, "Schilling, Richard" , hps@intermeta.de, "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. In-Reply-To: <51FCCCF0C130D211BE550008C724149E01165690@mail1.affiliatedhealth.org> <01062114211800.00692@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <01062114211800.00692@localhost.localdomain>; from Rob Landley on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I wouldn't be at all suprised if they did. It'd fit in with the history of > NT. (Version numbers really approximate, I don't have my notes with me.) > > NT 1.0: the inherited OS/2 1.x code ported to 32 bit mode, sort of. > > NT 2.0: 1.0 didn't work so let's try porting it to the mach microkernel. > > NT 3.0: that didn't work either, so let's hire Dave Cutler (chief unix hater > at Digital research and ex-head of the VAX VMS operating system) to port VMS > on top of the steaming pile of code that is NT. > > NT 3.5: punch holes in the mach microkernel to get some performance, try to > fix some of the more obvious bugs. > > NT 4.0 stabilized (a bit) because dave cutler (and the team under him) was > still around. They hadn't yet again changed horses in midstream. > Eventually, with the same team working on the same code, it's bound to > stabilize a bit.) Bloated a bit as well, but that's proprietary software for > you. Is this accurate? I never knew NT was mach-based. I do not think NT 1-3 were actually ever shipped, first was NT 3.5 right? Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org