Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem

Re:Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem by UK-AL on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:49AM (#12101356)

There are lots of flaws with the POSIX models. NT's creater (cutler) fixed a lot of them. Your dismive attitude is probably due to ignorance instead deep knowledge of what the NT kernel is capable of.

Just a few days ago there was post about how NT's IO by default is more performant.

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Re:Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem by youdontknowtho on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:19AM (#12101591)

Cutler is a nerd-hero of mine.

Yeah, the NT kernel design is pretty frickin awesome. There is a great book about the run up to NT's release. He took on the job because he thought that writing operating systems would happen fewer and fewer times in the future. I think he actually said that he thought this might be one of the last times a commercial OS would be written from scratch.

The thing about operating systems is that everyone thinks they know everything there is to know, but wow are they off the mark.

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Re:Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem by niroze on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:03PM (#12102765)

Awesome! Glad someone is actually talking sense here :)

The idea that windows=bad across the board is terrible.

Most don't even know what VMS is/was.

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