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Registered I/O on Windows is about three to four decades ahead, conceptually.

(As in, the stuff that facilitates registered I/O is based on concepts that can be traced back to VMS, released in 1977. Namely, the Irp, plus, a kernel designed around waitable events, not runnable processes.)



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