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Windows 7 core and MinWin kernel details - TechAmok
Windows 7 core and MinWin kernel details - [briefly] 05:51 AM EDT - Oct,22 2007 - post a comment Ars
Technica has more on Windows 7 core and MinWin kernel. Here's a bit:
Why "Windows 7"? The number is based on Microsoft's internal
operating system numbers: the first version of Windows NT, 3.1, was given the
same number as the "Classic" Windows when it was released in 1992. Since then
there has been NT 4, Windows 2000 (NT 5), Windows XP (NT 5.1), and Windows Vista
(NT 6). You can check these numbers by typing "ver" at a command prompt on any
of these operating systems.
Traut ran a stripped-down version of Windows 7 called "MinWin"
that included only the core kernel: for the first time Windows NT has been seen
running naked, without even a GUI to dress itself. It ran only a miniature web
server that would display simple HTML pages, including some
dynamically-generated pages that showed the task list and other properties of
MinWin itself. Thirteen tasks were running, most of which would be familiar to
anyone who has opened Task Manager: smss.exe, csrss.exe, and svchost.exe were
all there, plus the mini web server httpsrv.exe. The OS ran under Virtual PC,
and this allowed Traut to show the audience exactly how many resources it was
consuming: about 25MB on disk (compare with 14GB for a full Vista install) and
40MB of RAM. The OS booted up in about 20 seconds inside Virtual PC. Still not
quite as lightweight as, say, AmigaOS or QNX, but remarkably small for Windows.
Traut admitted that he would "still like to see it get smaller."
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