With the rise of networking and multimedia this was also an incredibly chaotic time and I suspect some of the problems with the big OS rewrites stem from that.

With the rise of networking and multimedia this was also an incredibly chaotic time and I suspect some of the problems with the big OS rewrites stem from that. Microsoft did a better job getting something useful shipped. I don't know if it ever got documented but I'm curious whether there was any serious push to build on the nanokernel work incrementally rather than do the big rewrite.