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From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: "NT is UNIX" or so Bill Gates says!!!
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Date: 20 Jul 93 15:42:40 GMT
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In article f0l@calvin.NYU.EDU, haggerty@acf2.nyu.edu (haggerty) writes:
[does NT use Mach] 
>	No, NT does not use Mach, but Inside NT claims that alot of
>the NT stuff is borrowed(read - stolen) from Mach. From what I've
>seen of NT, to say that it is derived from Mach is giving it far
>too much credit in the way of design. Mach is a TRUE microkernel,
>IMO NT isn't (but there are those who would disagree).

It is a macrokernel (like a microkernel but fatter).

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