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From: ericg@unixg.ubc.ca (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:56:51 GMT
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nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) wrote:

>In article <31702487.420C2193@lambert.org>,
>Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>>] and how to get the user from point A (a CDROM in one hand and
>>] a PC on the desk) to point B (a fancy graphical interface
>>] complete with "click here to start" button).
>>
>>This one is easier; it is completely technical, and I have
>>tried to push it in a large number of comercial organizations,
>>including Novell USG (the former USL) without success:
>>
>>1)	Move the DDX code for per-card drivers into the
>>	kernel.
>
>Augh.... This is evil, and causes the kernel to bloat excessively.  Even
>in WNT, the pig that it is doesn't do this.
>

Both Win3 and Win95 do video mode switching in kernel-mode VxDs.
And I just heard MS moved all of GDI to kernel mode in NT 4.
It is all dynamically loaded and mostly pagable.

Eric Gisin, ericg@unixg.ubc.ca