Comment by nobodyandproud 3 days ago Windows Vista isn't Windows NT 3.x. In the internal versioning, it's not even 4.0. 3 comments nobodyandproud Reply pjmlp 3 days ago Indeed, it is something better, Windows NT 6.0.And it is irrelevant anyway, given that this comment was written from 10.0.26100. nobodyandproud 3 days ago Oh, I see.You’re saying they improved the design. I know they added user-privilege device driver support for USB (etc).; did they revert the display compromise/mess as well? pjmlp 2 days ago Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
pjmlp 3 days ago Indeed, it is something better, Windows NT 6.0.And it is irrelevant anyway, given that this comment was written from 10.0.26100. nobodyandproud 3 days ago Oh, I see.You’re saying they improved the design. I know they added user-privilege device driver support for USB (etc).; did they revert the display compromise/mess as well? pjmlp 2 days ago Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
nobodyandproud 3 days ago Oh, I see.You’re saying they improved the design. I know they added user-privilege device driver support for USB (etc).; did they revert the display compromise/mess as well? pjmlp 2 days ago Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
pjmlp 2 days ago Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
Indeed, it is something better, Windows NT 6.0.
And it is irrelevant anyway, given that this comment was written from 10.0.26100.
Oh, I see.
You’re saying they improved the design. I know they added user-privilege device driver support for USB (etc).; did they revert the display compromise/mess as well?
Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.
Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...