Windows NT Kernel
Discussions center on the history, architecture, origins (e.g., VMS, OS/2 influences), and technical superiority of the Windows NT kernel compared to Windows 9x series and other OSes.
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I was not aware that NT shared OS/2 lineage.
NT is closer to a mainframe OS than 9x and it came out in the win3 era
Might have run on a Windows NT variant. That was sort-of supposed to be a microkernel.
Windows NT was. That has about the same relationship to Windows 10 that the Linux kernels designed for 486 do to modern Linux.
You're thinking of the 9x kernel. NT was pretty good.
NT was not based on OS/2. The author is misinformed.
NT the kernel is quite good. windows nt itself was not always great.
Microsoft did this with NT too, IIRC...
There's a reason that XP and subsequent client versions were based on NT :)
Windows NT is a completely different kernel, so was 9x. So Microsoft actually changed kernels at least twice.