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Tobiasly · 08-07-2002, 01:09 PM

They did nothing nowhere near rebuilding Windows from scratch. Windows XP uses the NT kernel. True, this is the first <I>consumer</I> version of windows that uses the NT kernel -- 95, 98, and ME were all just glorified DOS programs -- but they didn't rebuild it at all.

That would have required years of man-hours in coding time, not to mention breaking the functionality of any program written for previous versions of Windows that wasn't rebuilt to use a new Application Programming Interface. This message-passing architecture is how Windows works, and it's how programs written for Windows communicate with it. As the article points out, if they "fixed" this problem, all previous programs written for Windows would stop working.

08-07-2002, 01:09 PM	#11
Tobiasly hot Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Jeffersonville, IN (near Louisville) Posts: 892	They did nothing nowhere near rebuilding Windows from scratch. Windows XP uses the NT kernel. True, this is the first <I>consumer</I> version of windows that uses the NT kernel -- 95, 98, and ME were all just glorified DOS programs -- but they didn't rebuild it at all. That would have required years of man-hours in coding time, not to mention breaking the functionality of any program written for previous versions of Windows that wasn't rebuilt to use a new Application Programming Interface. This message-passing architecture is how Windows works, and it's how programs written for Windows communicate with it. As the article points out, if they "fixed" this problem, all previous programs written for Windows would stop working.