[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:07:08PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> >>>As originally detailed, NT should have been OK.
> >>
> >>Hell, 3.x was wonderful.  Everything went to hell in 4.0.
> >
> >3.x still had graphics integrated, which is where I think it went to
> >hell.
> 
> No, they didn't.  3.x's video drivers still ran in a separate VM, and
> the GDI was inside the Win32 subsystem.  4.X brought video drivers into
> kernel space, and brought the GDI (along with most of the Win32
> subsystem) into the kernel as well.

An interesting aside is that when at XIG.com we did testing and our
well-designed drivers under X11 performed *better* than NT4 graphics
drivers on the same hardware (e.g. Matrox Millenium).

And of course the X server does not run in-kernel.

Adding the GDI into the NT kernel was a mistake.

--P