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No you haven't.

Uh, yes, I have.

No one person has seen all those lines of code.

I haven't read every line, but I've seen most of the cool stuff. It
was a hobby of mine at one time.

If you
want people to believe you are privy to the inner workings of the NT
kernel, you will have to explain how you found the time to read and
understand so much of it that you can make such a bogus statement in
the first place.

You don't need to look at the code. Just write a program that runs in
a tight loop, and run it. If you can still switch to other tasks in
the system, you have preemptive multitasking. And on NT and its
descendants, you can do exactly that.

Talk is cheap on usenet. No one is impressed. Hey, for all you know, I
was on the development team.

No, you weren't.

Nope. Like I said, you do not have the proper defintion, or if it makes
you feel better, we are not applying the same definition.

I've spent part of my time writing operating systems for a living. I
have the right definition.

Everyone knows NT/XP/2000 is not windows 95.

But many of them don't seem to know much more than that, and they
don't seem to realize that NT/XP/200x have nothing to do with Windows
95 at all. They are a completely separate family of operating
systems.

Don't treat your readers like they are dummies.

I try to adapt as the situation warrants.

Hardly dead, and oh by the way, NT was built on early OS/2 code.

NT was built from scratch, as far as I know. There were disagreements
on development directions between Microsoft and IBM, and Microsoft
decided to go its own way.

NT and 2000 had plenty of OS/2 code in their kernel, and can even
run text mode OS/2 apps.

You can run MS-DOS apps, too, but that doesn't mean that NT contains
MS-DOS code.

If you had seen the code...... you would know that.

I don't remember if I ever looked at compatibility stuff. I wasn't
much interested in emulation.

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You don't need to look at the code. Just write a program that runs in
a tight loop, and run it. If you can still switch to other tasks in
the system, you have preemptive multitasking. And on NT and its
descendants, you can do exactly that.

Oye! I was right, you don't know what pre-emptive multitasking is......
Wikipedia is not the source of all knowledge.....

NT and 2000 had plenty of OS/2 code in their kernel, and can even
run text mode OS/2 apps.

You can run MS-DOS apps, too, but that doesn't mean that NT contains
MS-DOS code.

If you had seen the code...... you would know that.

I don't remember if I ever looked at compatibility stuff. I wasn't
much interested in emulation.


It is not emulated, it is OS/2 base code that runs native. You must be
aware of that.

As if bill gates would allow OS/2 emulation to be built into HIS
operating system rolling eyes

Gates and co. did NOT write NT from scratch. They based much of it on
the code developed at IBM for OS/2 when there was no mickysoft. Really,
anyone who was around at the time, or who bothers to check even for a
moment knows that. The only code any microsoft person ever wrote from
scratch was Bob....

OS/2 has no useful graphical interface? Thanks, I will remember that
one for a long time :-)

www.ecomstation.com

Either way, have a nice day. No point in wasting bandwidth on the same
old stuff year after year. Doesn't really matter in the long run. Take
a shot back to make you feel even. No big thing..... g

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Oye! I was right, you don't know what pre-emptive multitasking is......
Wikipedia is not the source of all knowledge.....

I don't see the connection.

It is not emulated, it is OS/2 base code that runs native. You must be
aware of that.

As I've said, I wasn't interested in compatibility stuff.

As if bill gates would allow OS/2 emulation to be built into HIS
operating system rolling eyes

Why not?

Gates and co. did NOT write NT from scratch. They based much of it on
the code developed at IBM for OS/2 when there was no mickysoft.

"Based"? What does that mean?

Really, anyone who was around at the time, or who bothers to check
even for a moment knows that.

Well, I _did_ check, and they _did_ write it from scratch. Of course
they adopted ideas that had been used in other various operating
systems, but every OS does that.

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