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On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:13:26 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>But it was all a part of the 1990s trend of building the GUI
inextricably into the OS kernel. A trend which *nix-type systems never
succumbed to.
AFAIK the only graphical component of Windows that was ever in the
kernel was GDI, which is a low-level drawing AP and isn’t relevant here.
It is the reason why the use of a GUI has to be declared within the
executable, before it can even start executing. So that the part of
the kernel that is responsible for launching executables can decide
whether to set up the process to use a GUI or not.
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