[ros-kernel] ReactOS

[Aliberti Emanuele]

Wesley Parish wrote:

>That's an excellent idea.  I would suggest a merge/win4lin-on-ReactOS style 
>arrangement to handle Win16 and Win32(9x) programs, and I think that could be 
>done with this source code I got way back when, and the dosbox and dosemu 
>code.  It'd also be a mammoth task.  (For what it's worth, I've also got 
>Schulman's "Unauthorized Windows 95" in my personal library.  It's got some 
>valuable hints on the True Secret History(TM) of Win32 as it applies to 
>Win9x.)
>  
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This message is here simply to comment this substring "a mammoth task". 
It is historically known that writing an operating system is a very 
complex task. Both NT and ReactOS have a plug in design which helps in 
reducing such complexity, by abstracting the traditional kernel tasks 
for the application's point of view. They achive this by making the 
actual o.s. seen by the application a user mode process plus a client 
library. (SMSS.EXE+NTDLL,CSRSS.EXE+KERNEL32.DLL, 
PSXSS.EXE+PSXDLL.DLL,...). Whatever you are going to code, keep it in mind.