Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor)

["Juergen Pfeifer" <nospam@nospam.org>]

>
> > To me it seems that most people don't realize that the Win2000
> > kernel is a huge difference to NT4, not to say the W9x kernel.
>
> Is it? I haven't noticed any huge differences between 2k and NT4.
> There are some noticable cosmetic differences, but (with the exception
> of plug-n-play) the underlying Win32 API and the kernel under that is
> almost identical.
>
> Certianly, there is a huge difference between the NT kernel (used in
> NT, 2k, and XP) and the Win9x series kernels. They are basicly 2
> *very* different OS's (the former a full-featured modern OS, the
> latter little better than an embedded OS with a GUI) that share a lot
> of the same API's and are somewhat binary-compatable.
>
No, No, No. Then you didn't look close enough. Of course the old
APIs of NT4 mostly stay stable, but under the hood there are a lot
of differences in implementation that makes the huge difference between
Win2K and the NT4 kernel. The whole domain system has been
changed and Active Directory has been introduced. That makes large
Domains much easier to manage. COM+ has been integrated seamlessly,
giving you a world class AppServer functionality including distributed
Transaction monitoring, reliable message queueing and queued components
for free. You have IntelliMirror technology, encrypted filesystem etc. etc.
The networking stack has been improved (giving you IPSec for example)
or a much better DNS, WINS and DHCP implementation than before.
And one could continue this list. Not to mention that the codebase has
been significantly cleaned up. All that results in a much higher stability
of
Win2000 compared to NT4.

J�rgen