[ros-dev] HAL reorganisation

Ge van Geldorp gvg at reactos.com
Fri Dec 3 00:21:54 CET 2004


> From: Maritn "E.T." Misuth
>
> I've heard that XBOX WinNT kernel implementation has only 
> around 120 kb in mem, allows single process only, (propably
> windows messaging) is done by polling and has not memory
> protection, so games can access hardwae directly.

Single process only is correct, "no memory protection" and "direct hardware
access" are more or less correct (the games run in kernel mode). Don't know
about the in-mem size or the polling.

> Will ReactOS on XBOX mimic this behavior?

No. We want to run standard Win32 apps so we need to behave as Windows does,
not as the Xbox kernel does.

Gé van Geldorp.




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