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		limeyx on April 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminar... They moved the entire graphics subsystem into kernel because it was "too slow" in user mode

Animats on April 16, 2016 [–]

Yes. Then Microsoft hired Mark Russinovich, the guy who ran "ntinternals.com" and demonstrated it wasn't too slow, to shut him up.[1]

[1] http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/did-microsoft-shut-do...

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