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> Other than kernel-integrated UI, its NT core is micro-kernel by design.

Care to elaborate on the kernel-integrated UI. That seems like a weird place to break from a micro-kernel design.



There is a referenced piece of info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

"The emulation subsystem which implements the Windows personality is called the Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (csrss.exe). On versions of NT prior to 4.0, this subsystem process also contained the window manager, graphics device interface and graphics device drivers. For performance reasons, however, in version 4.0 and later, these modules (which are often implemented in user mode even on monolithic systems, especially those designed without internal graphics support) run as a kernel-mode subsystem[1]."

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc750820.aspx




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