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#! rnews 1937 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.prd.nomura.co.uk!news-server From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:11:15 +0100 Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <323EE2A3.2C23B8A2@sullivan.bentley.com> <51kn0h$1i1@newsbr.eunet.fr> <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> <32413ece.157716099@news6.erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.201.66.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130197 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27566 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43809 greggd@caddmicro.com wrote: > > While NT was still in development, I had the opportunity to chat with > one (unnamed - 'cuz he's still there....) of the coders for the NT > microkernel part of the project....I learned something ironic... > > NT is Un*x!! Way down deep in the heart of the os, surrounded > by tons of extraneous MicroSquish slush....is for all intents and > purposes, Mach (From CMU). Some might remember Mach as the > OS that supported the NeXT as NeXTStep. Well, S. Jobs picked > Mach for the same reason B. Gatez picked it, that being it was easily > hidden under a layer of crud as to make it something else. I think you should have another word with your contact. I think that NT owes more to VMS kernel design than it does to MACH. It certainly is nothing like MACH 2.5 which is what Nextstep is. Steve