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From: macar@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Mike Acar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
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Date: 17 Dec 1994 17:19:44 GMT
Organization: Kent State University, Dept. of Math and CS
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: For unix-like operating systems, the first loadable kernel modules that I am
: aware of is OS/9 - a real-time operating system that ran on 6809 series
: computers. It employed unique hierarchiel manager->driver->descriptor kernel
: interface that allowed dynamic 'on the fly' device driver loads/unloads. This
: system came out about 1979 or so. Oh yes - the manufacturer is Microware. I
: don't work for them, but I like their product!
Ahh, yes... OS/9 Level II running on a Color Computer 3 w/ 512k of memory...
More stable *preemptive* multitasking than you can find on Windows in 8 megs of
RAM. Those were the days... :) Don't expect me to give up my 486 and go back,
however. :)
--
Mike Acar -=- macar@mcs.kent.edu -=- Reality exists through being perceived. -=-
-=- Linux: Free 32-bit multitasking Unix for the PC. -=- Ask me about it. -=-
-=- Diamond video card problems under XFree86? Finger me for info. -=-
-=- Linux and XFree86: Because life's too short to run Windows. -=-
-=- MARS Home Page URL: http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~macar -=-