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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by speed_spread on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @11:44AM (#40729340)
NT/VMS offers no immediately quantifiable advantage, but rather a different philosophy than Unix where everything-is-a-file-even-when-it-isnt-really. It's more of a batteries included system where the high-level and low-level parts combine to form a coherent whole. The HAL, dynamically loadable drivers, the registry, services, API personalities. It's a shame that all the good stuff about the design of NT takes a backseat to the modern Microsoft shenanigans.
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by p0w3n3d on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @12:08PM (#40729590)
Yeah. NT used to be so fast even through remote desktop, now it is so slow because of the bloat. Also I've read somewhere NT suffers from young developers wanting to rewrite parts in higher level languages, avoiding old winapi. But the Kernel is fast and nice...
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by justin66 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:07PM (#40730168)
A fair amount of my work is done via remote desktop, via VPN even, and it doesn't strike me as a particularly slow. I guess the question is, compared to what? On what hardware and network infrastructure?
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:56PM (#40730717)
It suffers from young developes wanting to ship Chrome alongside each application.

And it doesn't help that UWP and C++/WinRT turned out such mess that even Microsoft own teams rather use Webviews than native UIs.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/06/03/micros...

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/9...

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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by ThinkBeat on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:27PM (#40731589)
I used to use the WinAPi directly and then MFC.
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by temac on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:03PM (#40730782)
I still find NT very fast when using through RDP, especially compared with any FLOSS solution that exist in the GNU/Linux world. I've not tried proprietary graphic remoting solution for GNU/Linux systems though.
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by p0w3n3d on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:25PM (#40731575)
Those proprietary just use compression. RDP is genially invented, passing messages/calls efficiently. X also has a ton of messages, but compressing them is not sufficient
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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by blacklion on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:10PM (#40730194)
But in NT everything is a handle in much more consistent way than UNIX's everything is a file.

Each handle has security descriptor/ACLs, not only a files, and format is the same. Each handle can be waited for fr with same system call, and you could mix and match file, socket and process handles in same call.

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Re:ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from N... by rkagerer on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:13PM (#40730213)
ExecOS doesn't implement a HAL.
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