Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments View flat View list |
Things have been pretty slow behind the scenes at ANN. I still worked most of January 2001 and the past two weeks of February, so my free time was limited. My PC seems to be working okay now, but my dialup has been very unreliable and painfully slow (how many errors are normal in W2k's dialup status window? So far I have 143 for less than 200k transferred...). The DSL line is supposedly being installed "in a few weeks". Sounds oddly familiar. I finally found an Amiga sponsor again, so that my phone costs are almost covered. Thanks also to the individuals who offered donations - sorry I didn't get back to you - but I'm always reluctant to accept individual donations for a number of reasons I won't go into since space is limited. :) To wrap up this MOTD, I'm trying once more to find one or more reliable contributors to do a bit of moderation and article posting. Please apply via email.
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MOTD 12/Feb/2001 : Comment 32 of 64 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Hassan Sultan on 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (Mark Olsen): The day when you understand how operating systems and kernels work will be a great day.
What is the problem with putting graphical operations in kernel space ? Can you tell this to me ?
The kernel can't do anything else during this time and the system is blocked while the call is processed ? FALSE
The NT/2000 kernel is fully reentrant, and threads executing in the executive(in the kernel code) are preempted by the scheduler, they do NOT own the CPU from the start of the syscall to the end of the syscall.
YOU should go read a few books about operating systems, because you are making a fool of yourself in front of everybody.
Concerning your other "problems", can you give more precise informations than "Crap APIs, Win32 is evil, and DirectX is really, really fscked up" ?
Or is it because you don't have any clue about it ?
And I would be very happy to know how an MPEG movie can lay down Win2k(unless your graphic card driver has a bug), can you explain that precisely to me ? And please not by saying "this is crap", I'd like to know the real problem.
Oh and for Win2k being a bastard to administer, you will have to explain that to almost all the small businesses who don't have a Unix sysadmin, because most of them use Windows servers.
Please, use your brain next time,
Hassan(still laughing...) |
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