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.
replyGreat read. It reminded me of a talk I attended in Amsterdam by Mark Russinovich.
replyWindows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels - Tech-Ed 2004
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.
replyIt sure looks a lot like VMS to me...
replyIt 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.
reply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RkHH-psrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVgSLud50ss