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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by pjmlp on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:01AM (#10750189)
- Written for thread based applications, not processes

- Asynchronous IO architecture only matched by Solaris

- Object based architecture

- OO ABI (more so with WinRT), besides the C one

- Allows C++ in kernel space

- Components as interoperability between applications

- User space driver model, specially nice for graphics drivers

- Pursues the mainframe ideas of safer languages for system and application's programming

- Powershell is closer to Xerox PARC REPLs than any UNIX shell, except for Mac OS X.

And what brought me back, after 10 years mostly in UNIX land, culture of using graphic based tools instead of a PDP-11 experience and desire to try new approaches to OS architecture.

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by sspiff on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:32AM (#10750624)
> Powershell is closer to Xerox PARC REPLs than any UNIX shell, except for Mac OS X.

Which shell do you mean on OS X? I thought they just shipped with zsh or bash?

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by pjmlp on Thursday December 17, 2015 @05:47AM (#10750682)
I had Apple Script and Swift Playgrounds on my mind as I typed it.
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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by chris_wot on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:08AM (#10750984)
To see the overall architecture, the following block diagram I created for Wikipedia some time ago might be helpful:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2000_archi...

Incidentally, it annoys the living snott out of me that I took the time to put a PNG version of this together, someone redoes the diagram as an SVG then someone loads it to commons and I don't get any credit!

Update: I speak too soon. The image viewer doesn't show it, but the main page does.

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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by pjmlp on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:16AM (#10751006)
Quite nice. Have you though about adding the new WinRT changes?
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Re:ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has ... by chris_wot on Thursday December 17, 2015 @07:30PM (#10755800)
I haven't been following :( do you have a good pointer to info?
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