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- From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Date: 30 Aug 1992 03:23:21 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <1992Aug29.115034.17334@hacker.UUCP>
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- steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
- : but I feel very strongly about one thing [...]
- : (according to rumors :-), and that's reloadable device drivers.
- : It just seems that the micro kernel people are the only ones doing it.
-
- SunOS has had loadable device drivers, system calls, and functions (I'm
- not sure what you use the last one for but there it is) since SunOS 4.1.
- They are very useful. And drivers, at least, are fairly easy to add
- in - they are quite clean about interfaces.
- ---
- Larry McVoy (415) 336-7627 lm@sun.com
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