[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Conor Wynne wrote:
>>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.
<snip>

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


It's might be worth noting that people who use monolithic kernels, don't 
have an abundance of leeway in criticising a decision to move something 
non-ring0 to ring0.

For shame : Graphics drivers in ring zero.

Thank god in Linux/BSD land we run our file system drivers, network 
drivers, schedulers, ... in userspace...

err..

/runs for the hills