[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[Conor Wynne]

> Quoting Conor Wynne (weeboy at conorwynne.com):
>
>> Think its win9x your thinking of. Which is why the system had to be
>> three
>> finger saluted if the display got corrupted. This did not happen with
>> nt4.
>
> No, he _is_ thinking of NT4.  The graphics drivers had to be moved into
> ring zero (kernelspace) during the beta cycle to restore performance to
> acceptable levels, compared to NT 3.51 and prior, which ran the graphics
> subsystem (more sensibly) in userspace.
>
> I had a Microsoft executive (Alex Saunders) try to justify the change to
> me on grounds that any machine whose graphics subsystem is hosed is in
> trouble anyway, and needs to be restarted.  I asked:  "Er, isn't this
> alleged to be a _server_ operating system as well?"  No reply to that --
> and I didn't even get around to the _other_ obvious point:  that an OS
> whose graphics system runs in userspace can recover/reinit the graphics
> code without falling over completely (rebooting, etc.)
>
> These days, if you raise those points to Microsoft folk, they shrug off
> anything you say about avoidable fragility, and just blame faulty
> hardware and drivers.

Ah yes, its coming back to me now, and yes I have heard those same
arguments aswell. Good man.

> --
> Cheers,
> Rick Moen                                    Magnus frater spectat te.
> rick at linuxmafia.com
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