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by GordonS 2628 days ago
> That way MSWin relies on the underlying OS to do things MSWin has proven to be just not very good at

Could you expand on what some of these things are?

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File operations. Corralling vendors to code reliable, non-crashy drivers. Input device event handling. Thread scheduling. I/O scheduling. Anything where tuning would have involved work by more than one product group.