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“ Windows XP moved to the NT kernel, whose primary difference was moving away from a monolithic kernel to a hybrid kernel. With MS-DOS, the kernel and operating
by dblohm7 5y ago
“ Windows XP moved to the NT kernel, whose primary difference was moving away from a monolithic kernel to a hybrid kernel. With MS-DOS, the kernel and operating system exists completely within the kernel space. Windows NT uses a safer structure, where the kernel is split between the kernel space and the user space.”
Yeah, that’s not what a hybrid kernel entails, and that is certainly not the primary difference between DOS and NT. I had to stop reading.