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by IntelMiner 653 days ago
Then almost immediately took them back out after realizing this was a bad idea
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I presume this reversal happened during NT's main support window?
Well, by "immediate" they mean: "was user space through Win2k, went to kernel space in XP to match 9x performance, reversed in Vista".

So...one generation, and about 7 years later.

They were moved into kernel space in NT 4.