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From: Tim Robinson (tim.at.gaat.freeserve.co.uk_at_invalid.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:29:40 +0100

Tim Roberts wrote:
[...]
> Looking just at the newsgroup name, how could
> "microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel" possibly NOT be about
> kernel-mode programming?

There's no such thing as the "Win32 kernel", only the NT kernel (technically
Win9x has a virtual machine manager rather than a traditional kernel).

> Looking just at the history, it is clear that 90% of the posts in this
> group are, in fact, about device drivers and interacting with device
> drivers. Are you suggesting that this group should be dedicated to
> the user-mode APIs contained in kernel32.dll? Do you have a
> reference for that?

I tend to think of this as being a newsgroup for Win32 base services, of
which KERNEL32.DLL is a part. But it would be rude to stop people posting
driver-related questions. 

-- 
Tim Robinson (MVP, Windows SDK)
http://mobius.sourceforge.net/

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