[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[John Wallace]

On Jan 16, 1:07 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article
> <dec96c96-1ba6-4f28-af8f-099e46fa6... at m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>  John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > "Critical for system reliability" was important in the original NT
> > design (the one that outsiders saw as NT3.x) but afaik was quickly
> > (and quietly) sacrificed.
>
> I don't remember the sacrifice being all that quiet. Rather I recall
> dragging the graphics into the kernel being actively promoted as a
> performance benefit.
>
> The rest of what you say is spot on.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

The performance benefit was indeed promoted loudly, but iirc
(correction welcome) the tradeoff for reliability, stability and
security was kept relatively quiet... after all, Windows wasn't an
enterprise-class OS back then, so it didn't matter.