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Re: Linux as OS course.



On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> 
> I can hardly imagine how one can teach NT kernel design at the university.
> I thought it's one of most guarded M$ secrets? They never release it to
> anyone, except for big money. So you would have to sign NDA entering this
> course, or what? Student under NDA - funny, funny.

M$ don't free their sources, but they do tell you what algorithms NT uses.
You can read about it in OS Concepts/Zilberschats & Galvin (I'm SURE that
I misspelled the first name). This is a great OS book, BTW.

> >From the other side, I've heard of american high education institutions
> totally sold out to M$ - in exchange for free windows & office (like, if
> you go into slavery, you get chains and whips for free ;)). And then this
> story about M$ paying $100 (I'm not sure on exact sum) to every teacher
> mentioning M$ products in their lectures...

I'm willing to teach things about M$, I'm just not so sure that Micro$oft
will want to pay me for that...

> 
> On the third side, if they decide on NT - I'd like to see course's slides.
> It's curious what they'd put on it. Or are they going to teach Win32 API
> instead of OS principles? 

As much as I like Linux and hate M$ products, I have to say that NT is
well built and uses most of the OS principles, and should also be POSIX
compatible (I think that the reason that it wasn't really developed by
Micro$oft developers, but by the VMS team...)

Bye,
Liran.
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