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NT was able to use a simpler (maybe not simple, but simpler) design because it was written from scratch once we knew that caches and buffers were desirable. So it's got a unification of swap and cache that would be difficult to retrofit onto *nix.


The Linux kernel and the NT kernel are approximately the same age.


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