Alex Ionescu wrote:
I totally agree. The main thing to realize, as you've said, is that ReactOS is an -NT clone-. Steven and I and others are preparing a talk to be delivered to universities which want to give an OS course based on Windows, so that ReactOS's code base can be used as an example and learning base for the actual NT kernel. If we do everything differently, and I'm not talking about small internal algorithms, this is a big design decision, then such possibilites will vanish.
This is a good reason for cloning NT.