From: Tony Williams 

Frank Haber wrote:
>> I find that last one hard to believe. Haven't they heard of spinlocks
>> and semaphores?
>
>
> Oh, they've heard of them.   Remember, the best brains from VMS and
> Berkeley were hired by MS in NT's heyday.

Dave Cutler's last attempt to destroy Unix. Didn't he leave though?

> But semaphores seem to have been deprecated out of existence at
> Microsoft - they have better.  Spinlocks I know nothing about.

Glorified busy-wait, but sometimes useful.

> If you're interested, there have been several videos on Channel9 and
> MSDN TV lately by members of the kernel team.  I think I even mentioned
> one last month.  Bright folks.
>

That does sound interesting. I've never heard of MSDN tv - is it on regular cable?

--
Tony

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