[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<ac928aa7-6e6e-49fb-adfe-40f8d38c935e at c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

It was known in the circles I was talking to at the time. Granted that 
was probably a small circle.

-- 
Paul Sture