blogs.zdnet.com— "What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP--and almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants..."
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Well I have found Linux to be much faster than xp. I can run Warcraft III with full detail fine on Linux, on XP it would barely run on low detail.lot of other things running in windows...even if windows was faster in basic os stuff, you still can't beat virtually no viruses...
"I currently do a windows install about every six mounths and I'm very sure you do the same."No, actually... I installed XP once and it's been purring along ever since. Fat cat's purr, granted... but purring nonetheless.
I too do a XP install about every 6 months...and to be perfectly honest, I do a Debian reinstall about every year (though not of fault of Debian...mainly because I pretty much upgrade every summer...)Also, it is very widely known that the 2k kernel was HEAVILY based on Digitals VMS kernel (not saying MS swiped code, but they did hire a crap load of the programmers, including David Cutler, and the design they used was /HEAVILY/ influenced by their work on VMS). So I guess it is technically true that it was a MS product built ground up, but at the same time 2k really is just a badly done VMS clone/ripoff.
top:The NT architecture is extremely portable/adaptable. There are four main layers to NT: Harware Abstraction Layer (HAL), kernel/device drivers, executive, and subsystems. The HAL is where most platform-specific code exists. Want to run on PowerPC? Modify the HAL. The subsystem defines how user-mode apps interract with kernel-mode layers (Win32, Windows 3.1, MS-DOS, POSIX, OS/2, whatever) - they define the operating environment. How does a OSX subsystem sound?
smarterdanuNov 9, 2005
Well I have found Linux to be much faster than xp. I can run Warcraft III with full detail fine on Linux, on XP it would barely run on low detail.lot of other things running in windows...even if windows was faster in basic os stuff, you still can't beat virtually no viruses...
Closed AccountNov 9, 2005
singularity is also a math term, you jackass. It was used in math long before it got adopted by physists to describe blackhole.
vikramkrNov 9, 2005
DAMN FLAMERS!
dolbyNov 9, 2005
By the way acceptance is the first step to recovery.
etruscanNov 9, 2005
"I currently do a windows install about every six mounths and I'm very sure you do the same."No, actually... I installed XP once and it's been purring along ever since. Fat cat's purr, granted... but purring nonetheless.
boxingnut83Nov 9, 2005
I've been running the same XP install for 3 years.. You just have to know how to keep the s**t running smoothly..
edlesmannNov 9, 2005
I too do a XP install about every 6 months...and to be perfectly honest, I do a Debian reinstall about every year (though not of fault of Debian...mainly because I pretty much upgrade every summer...)Also, it is very widely known that the 2k kernel was HEAVILY based on Digitals VMS kernel (not saying MS swiped code, but they did hire a crap load of the programmers, including David Cutler, and the design they used was /HEAVILY/ influenced by their work on VMS). So I guess it is technically true that it was a MS product built ground up, but at the same time 2k really is just a badly done VMS clone/ripoff.
heapallocNov 9, 2005
top:The NT architecture is extremely portable/adaptable. There are four main layers to NT: Harware Abstraction Layer (HAL), kernel/device drivers, executive, and subsystems. The HAL is where most platform-specific code exists. Want to run on PowerPC? Modify the HAL. The subsystem defines how user-mode apps interract with kernel-mode layers (Win32, Windows 3.1, MS-DOS, POSIX, OS/2, whatever) - they define the operating environment. How does a OSX subsystem sound?
Closed AccountNov 9, 2005
so OSX is better than windows in a way? ie Unix core