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IntelMiner on Sept 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

Then almost immediately took them back out after realizing this was a bad idea

hernandipietro on Sept 10, 2024 | [–]

Right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468462

chrisfinazzo on Sept 10, 2024 | [–]

I presume this reversal happened during NT's main support window?

deaddodo on Sept 10, 2024 | [–]

Well, by "immediate" they mean: "was user space through Win2k, went to kernel space in XP to match 9x performance, reversed in Vista".

So...one generation, and about 7 years later.

Narishma on Sept 14, 2024 | | [–]

They were moved into kernel space in NT 4.

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