Re: UNIX: The Experiment That Failed

Clemens Huebner - Sun Germany Technical Solution Center - Munich (Clemens.Huebner@Germany.Sun.COM)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:14:27 +0200


Boy,

this is really sick!

One Example: (Comment on Novell)

>Benefit 1: Uhhh.... handles File & Print services really fast... 'cause they run in Ring 0,
> which is where the unprotected system kernel lives... crashes the server really
> fast too! Send your Netware horror stories to Dear Abend....

Well, NT even runs the GUI on level 0....

As a matter of fact both Solaris and the newest Linux versions run parts of file services in
Ring 0, but to take this as an advantage of NT? YUCK!

Clemens