[TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)

[Andrew Vida]

Crap. I may gave confused it with another UNIX-oid kernel... I get them 
confused.  Pardon me.  At any rate, the XP kernel is one of the *NIX 
varieties.  That is why it is stable.  They replaced a mere program 
loader with an actual operating system.  Un fortunately, they have 
retained the rest of the horribly flawed architecture, the worst of it 
being the progran registry.


xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> Don't quite understand that, POSIX never was an operating system, it was 
> a specification for an interface to an operating system.  A lot of OS's 
> had a posix interface built back when the government decided it was a 
> procurement requirement.
> 
> Charles
> 
> Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
>>     XP uses a POSIX kernel, so it is essentially a UNIX system with a 
>> really lousy window management system wrapped around it.  Ironic.
>>
>>
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