>If it weren't for the input filtering, we would end up with something
>like NT/Windows 2000 --- a huge, bloated kernel, that blue screens
>constantly.
Well, as someone who has to administer a whole bunch of NT machines,
I regret to inform you that NT does _not_ bluescreen constantly at
either of the sites I administer.
I wish it did, for then I could replace it with Linux or xBSD, and
make the users use StarOffice instead of MS-Office.
Is the NT kernel that much larger than Linux? Sure, it takes three
disks to bootstrap it, but a large part of that is drivers and the
stage-1 installer, which is, in my experience, the thing that bloats
up a Linux bootstrap to the point where you either have to use a
compressed root filesystem or (shudder) multiple floppies to
bootstrap.
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david parsons \bi/ Certainly if I used every ethernet, SCSI, and CD-rom
\/ driver for the bootstrap I'd be pushing two (compressed)
loppies instead of one.
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