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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card not found on warmboot
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.174327.24459@rwwa.COM>
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- References: <1992Aug21.171828.14323@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Aug24.085511.21092@autelca.ascom.ch> <veit.714671205@du9ds3> <1992Aug25.035924.29631@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <veit.714724604@du9ds3> <1992Aug25.165542.5689@gateway.novell.com>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:43:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.165542.5689@gateway.novell.com>,
- terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
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- | In article <veit.714724604@du9ds3>, veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
- | |> Which system calls do you want to make "loadable"? It is an interesting idea
- | |> to add features but it makes the software that rely on it unportable.
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- | Given a uniform underlying interface, everything else would have no problem
- | running.
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- What Terry is saying, I think, (Interpreting Terry is always risky ;-) )
- is that ``loadability'' and ``portability'' are orthogonal issues:
- and example of this is (I know, I know) VMS, where gobs of the kernel
- are loadable images, and can be dynamically loaded (and
- possibly---shudder---unloaded or reloaded) during the life of the
- system. I know; I wrote part of a loadable system image.
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- As long as the *interface* to the services are standard (i.e. portable)
- loadable OS features can be portable also.
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