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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!johnhall
- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.232051.28262@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:20:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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- In article db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM (David Brownell) writes:
- | I'm not after a "because that's the way it's built" answer, but rather
- | one that explains why that's a supposed to be good thing.
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- I am not an official MS Spokesbeing. However, This is
- how I view the problem:
-
- Think of NT as a virtual operating system where three different
- subsystems (at present) take the primitive objects and proceedures
- available in NT and implement their own particular ideas of
- security, process structure, and system capabilities.
-
- Each subsystem is internally consistant. However, mixing
- calls between internally consistant but diverse operating
- systems (their ideas on process structures, for example)
- would lead to an explosion of permutations and special cases.
- Said increased complexity would undermine the quality
- standards MS is striving for.
-
- All in all, it is probably easier for MS to provide improved
- libraries and a little extra functionality (if necessary)
- in Win32 instead of trying to support mixing subsystems.
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- My comments are my own. They are independent and unrelated to the
- views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
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