[ros-dev] White Paper outdated ?

Maarten Bosma maarten.paul at bosma.de
Fri Feb 3 17:23:31 CET 2006


Our Withe Paper on http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/dev_whitepaper.html says

> The original target for ReactOS, with regards to driver and application 
> compatibility, was Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Since then, Microsoft 
> Windows 2000 and Windows XP have been released. Microsoft Windows 2000 
> and Windows XP are both descendants of Windows NT. As such we can 
> gradually shift our compatibility target without worrying about the 
> architecture changing too much. In fact, internally, Windows 2000 
> reports version information as Windows 5.0 and Windows XP as Windows 
> 5.1. The ReactOS team have decided to maintain Windows NT 4.0 as the 
> official compatibility target. This is because most of the resources, 
> articles and books on Windows NT/2000/XP technology are written for 
> Windows NT 4.0. This does not mean that features present in later 
> versions of Windows NT based operating systems will not be implemented 
> in ReactOS.

Since we changed the reported version to Windows 2000, i'd say that is 
not true anymore is it ?


Maarten Bosma


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