[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 19-01-2010 13:57, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.

As I recall it then it was explained in practically every
technical PC magazine, so the circles were not that small.

Arne