Comment by PaulHoule
3 months ago
You can't say WDDM wasn't a step forward... Being able to crash your video drivers and reboot them without crashing and rebooting your whole machines made Windows a lot more stable.
3 months ago
You can't say WDDM wasn't a step forward... Being able to crash your video drivers and reboot them without crashing and rebooting your whole machines made Windows a lot more stable.
Peak doesn't mean that it's a monotonic decline without any steps forward.
One of the innovations in NT 4.0 was adding the ability for video drivers to crash the kernel. They went full circle.