From: Bryan Ford (bryanf@hpmcaa)
Date: 08/31/92 

From: bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford)
Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block?   (sorry... couldn't resist)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:57:33 GMT

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.

So has AmigaDOS, since 1.0. :-)

                                Bryan

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