From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist) Date: 30 Aug 1992 03:23:21 GMT
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.