Comment by EvanAnderson
8 hours ago
> Also, the NT kernel is criminally underrated, and pretty much unknown to hobbyists. It had features that Linux took years and years to come up with its own design for...
A person after my own heart. NT was actually designed, versus being a reimplementation of an existing thing.
I was curious about this a couple of years ago and ended up digging into the history of the NT design, comparing it to contemporary Unix systems, and writing this: https://jmmv.dev/2024/09/windows-nt-vs-unix-design.html . Pretty enlightening exercise.
Great read. It reminded me of a talk I attended in Amsterdam by Mark Russinovich.
Windows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels - Tech-Ed 2004
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HdV9QuvgS_w
Too bad for all the horrible misfeatures that got designed in and that we still have to live with, like the entire I/O Manager/Object Manager/filters/driver stack mess, with no caching anywhere above the drivers.
It sure looks a lot like VMS to me...
It does, and for reason I'm assuming many already know why. But if you weren't joking and were living under a rock. Look up the guy, Dave Cutler, who were mostly responsible putting together both.
Youtube has many of his interviews. The Computer History Museum (CHM) two part is perhaps most extensive. Links below to these.