On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:30 +0530, Vihan Pandey wrote:
the link was sent to the list well after my request to you for the M$ thing on Microkernels to which you gave an arrogant ``check for yourself" advice which i decided to follow.
Arrogant is hardly the word. Insolent maybe. Say whatever. But when I'm flaming someone I'm not going get off my big fat arse and post links to prove my point. If the "flamee" wishes to confirm what I'm saying, he may do it at his own expense ( b/w, time, money etc... etc... ) ;)
And I _wasnt_ referring to singularity. I clearly mentioned in my post that Win2k / 2k3 was using a semi-microkernel architecture. Obviously you lost that bit. Fine.
Mohan posted this. Did you miss it? or overlooked it?
From Galvin's book's appendix (7/e):
http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7/online-dir/Win2K.pdf See page 4.
The article is dated 12 May 2006 if you cared to look.
By May of 2006, it was quite clear that Vista was _ahem_ doomed :P