Netscape integration (or whither Southsoft ?)

[Steve Lamb]

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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:39:44 -0400 (EDT), Darin McBride wrote:

>>>the protected kernel (which, curiously, appears to be copied from OS/2 - so >what does that tell you about Microsoft's ability to engineer a product).  

>>   Funny, I thought the kernel was protected from the days of Unix.  What
>>does that say about IBM?

>I really doubt it.  At the time, Unix couldn't thread.  There is a
>serious redesign between the unix kernals and the OS/2 (and NT) kernal.

    Sure it could, was called fork().  Unix had processes, others had
threads.  Even now when a program can be multithreaded the threads just show
up as processes.  One process cannot take down the whole box, that would be
considered a protected kernel in my book.
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