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- From: bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford)
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:57:33 GMT
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- lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
- > 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.
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- So has AmigaDOS, since 1.0. :-)
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- Bryan
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