Re: Of mice and men

>> The reason that it is relatively small is that Windows software
cannot
>> be recompiled by the user.

> A great deal of it can be - but the point is moot, anyway.

I was unclear. 'Windows software' == software that _is_ Windows. Not
software that runs on top of Windows.

> Both OSes are designed to meet similar security criteria,

Certainly _current_ versions of Windows have similar security criteria,
but Unix had those in the original designs because it was based on
multi-user needs and interactive use.

Windows started as a graphics library on top of DOS without even
networking being a consideration. NT was a new design but MS had the
multiuser features removed because it wanted to sell each user a
complete system. These were added back as a layer on top by Citrix and
for TSE. Even today Windows is compromised by the needs of 'legacy'
(ie Windows 98/ME and even DOS) requirements.

> This argument also demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the
> NT loader, which need not load a module at the same address each
time.

But within a module (for the same release) all the variables and code
will be in exactly the same position each time relative to the start.

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