RE: [ros-kernel] Forward: "ReactOS is too limited"

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

At 03.17 31/05/2002, you wrote:
>Also in this area of annoying niggles are `security' measures like 
>offering the administrator the option of disabling the Display control 
>panel, while leaving the programmatic interface to the thing unchecked.

I think we all agree that this sucks. It's because ACLs and objects (two 
building blocks of NT) haven't been used consistently by Microsoft. They 
preferred the registry-based advisory restrictions, the policies

>I honestly think that the DOS console model is too limited and broken to 
>make a decent terminal emulator program possible. The way to do it would 
>be to wrap it around the (greatly extended) POSIX subsystem, and ignore 
>the console entirely.

My idea, exactly. I'd even go as far as writing a kernel mode tty driver

>Zsh runs native in win32; it can be configured to be comfortable.

Win32 zsh is extremely buggy. It really suffers from the lack of an 
underlying POSIX runtime