You binary-module-compatibility people keep pointing at other operating
systems as how all this can and should be achieved. OK, question: How
does NT solve the problem of keeping compatibility in the face of
different optimizations for different CPUs? Answer: single UP kernel
and single SMP kernel for *all* x86 CPUs. (Wait, do they even
*support* 386? Not sure.) And no inlining of fastpath code like
spinlocks. Is this what we want?
Peter
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