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- From: edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)
- Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.091511.25803@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 09:15:11 GMT
- Organization: Strategy Division, Microsoft Corp.
- References: <BzLpC2.pH@alsvid.une.edu.au> <1992Dec21.192229.27548@rchland.ibm.com> <1992Dec22.202832.22160@kvamdata.no>
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- Eirik Lygre writes:
-
- >This is wrong. Cairo is not the same as Windows NT. Cairo is the codename
- >for Microsofts next generation user interface. Do not expect to see Cairo
- >(or a product of cairo technology) until 1994. Cairo has been showed
- >publicly at least once, about 6 weeks back.
-
- This is essentially correct.
-
- What has been reported in the past is that Cairo is the code name
- for the next major change to Windows. It involves a UI change and
- the adoption of an object-oriented infrastructure, including a
- distributed object store and other like services. The UI has been
- demoed at the NT developers conference among other places. Though
- it is running within Microsoft, the release date quoted in trade
- journals is 1994.
-
- >To make a short reference to mach: Microsoft now employes several of the
- >former mach-researchers (I believe one of them was leading the mach
- >project); these people now work mainly on Cairo, and not on Windows NT.
- >It would probably be safe to assume, though, that the do "consultancy
- >work" with the NT group -- they do know some microkernel stuff, after
- >all.
-
- This is mostly incorrect.
-
- Rick Rashid, formerly of CMU and head of the Mach project, is now
- director of research at Microsoft. The research group is working
- on a variety of projects, and others from the Mach effort are in
- that group as well. Cairo, however, is in Advanced Systems. The
- research group contributes to Cairo (and NT) in many ways, but do
- not work directly on the products -- consultancy is a good way
- of expressing this.
-
- --
- Edward Jung, Software Architect edwardj@microsoft.com
- Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.
-