>To add further fuel to the fire...
>
>NT 4.0 moved the GDI (Graphics Display Interface, or something like
>that -- basically the graphics subsystem) into the kernel for exactly
>this reason.  Apparently, it was just too slow being out in user-land.
>NT versions prior to 4.0 had GDI as a user-space server subsystem.

This was primarily done so that NT 4.0 could support DirectDraw(TM).

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