Comment on The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave CutlerparentComments−mwcampbell10yDid any of that crap code from Windows 95 go in the kernel, or was it just in user space?−Animats10yA lot of it went into the kernel for Windows XP. It took until Windows 7 to clean up the mess inside.−limeyx10yThey moved the entire graphics subsystem into kernel because it was "too slow" in user mode−Animats10yYes. Then Microsoft hired Mark Russinovich, the guy who ran "ntinternals.com" and demonstrated it wasn't too slow, to shut him up.[1][1] http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/did-microsoft-shut-do...
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Did any of that crap code from Windows 95 go in the kernel, or was it just in user space?
A lot of it went into the kernel for Windows XP. It took until Windows 7 to clean up the mess inside.
They moved the entire graphics subsystem into kernel because it was "too slow" in user mode
Yes. Then Microsoft hired Mark Russinovich, the guy who ran "ntinternals.com" and demonstrated it wasn't too slow, to shut him up.[1]
[1] http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/did-microsoft-shut-do...