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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!edwardj
- From: edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)
- Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.083543.2940@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:35:43 GMT
- Organization: Strategy Division, Microsoft Corp.
- References: <Bz2LFA.7qM@eis.calstate.edu> <20409@durer.cme.nist.gov>
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- Rick Schneeman writes:
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- >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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- Rick Rashid is the Director of Research at Microsoft and a company
- architect. He is not directly participating in the Advanced Systems
- project often called "Cairo", although we talk from time to time.
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- Edward Jung, Software Architect edwardj@microsoft.com
- Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.
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