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- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
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- References: <1993Jan22.232051.28262@microsoft.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:42:19 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan22.232051.28262@microsoft.com> johnhall@microsoft.com writes:
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- >In article db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM (David Brownell) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- *Three* different subsystems? There's:
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- Win32
- Win16 ("WOW")
- DOS
- OS/2
- Posix
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- By my count that's *five* :)
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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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- Best wishes,
-
- Chris
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