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PetrOS - NT alternative?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beat-them-at-their-own-game dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Trumpet Software, the company well known for its Trumpet Winsock package has been quoted in the press as having their own version of a Win32 platform operating system, called PetrOS. They are working out if they can release it without affecting MS's API intellectual property, from the " They claim to have a 100kb microkernel, and run native NT executables. Anyone have more details?

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  1. Re:hmm.. i wonder if it will be open source? by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 4
    if the kernel is only 100kb what the hell has mikeysoft put in thiers?

    Easter eggs. If you hold down QCKRTISO whilst saying the Lord's Prayer backwards and tipping milk into your keyboard, it displays random pictures from Bill's family photo album. This is why stuff like GIF decoders have to be in kernel space under Windows NT; the "photo album" Easter egg requires them to work.