Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4455 comp.os.linux.misc:31875 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!sam-ppp-f6.NeoSoft.COM!msand From: msand@Neosoft.Com (Mark F. Sanderson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 07:14:02 GMT Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <msand.2.2EF28FBA@Neosoft.Com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3cdn8t$q89@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sam-ppp-f6.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3cdn8t$q89@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes: >From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) >Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX >Date: 11 Dec 1994 02:23:35 GMT >In article <QUINLAN.94Dec8192943@shell1.best.com> >quinlan@shell1.best.com (Daniel Quinlan) writes: >> Rather than see this turn into a flame war, does anyone have any Linux >> (kernel) features that could be classified as possible innovations not >> appearing elsewhere? >> >> Where were loadable kernel modules first implemented? FYI - 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! >SunOS 4 was early, but I don't know if it was the first. >-- >Juergen Nickelsen