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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
- Message-ID: <C05FAH.1q1@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- References: <1439@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:13:28 GMT
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- andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
- : In article <C03I3E.10C@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
- : > It's obvious from even what I've read so far that NT is
- : [... enough to make any 'Unixoid' happy]
- :
- :
- : I'm interested in this idea. In order for me to be happy the OS must
- : provide advanced virtual memory (essentially equivalent to mmap in SysVR4)
- : or else it's dreck. Also, I don't cross the street unless the capability
- : of dynamic loading (which is more useful than dynamic linking) is explicitly
- : supported. I'm getting pretty cramped in the 32 bit address space, so will
- : Windows NT make me happy?
- :
- : I.e. Does Windows NT support dynamic loading, memory mapped files and
- : will there be a 48/64 bit version before 1996?
-
- Someone who knows more than I should answer this, but if they don't:
-
- From what I've read so far: mmap (yes) virtual memory (yes). Beyond
- t, I dunno. It is multiprocessor, though and is *not* [3-5]86 specific.
-
- They don't call it mmap(), of course. It's called a "file mapping
- object, [which] represents a block of memory". Kind of obvious
- what it is, isn't it?
-
- Reading "Inside Windows NT" is fun. Ideas that are old hat to Unix
- are presented as though they were wonderful insights by the Microsoft
- design team. Not knocking the book, it's pretty good. It's just that
- I keep saying "Well, geez, why don't they just call it NT-Unix and
- be done with it?"
-
- Tony apl@world.std.com
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