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From: "V. Cretu" <akston@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:09:41 -0800
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> Oh btw. I'd be interested to know more about the IRIX internals. I
> guess it's not a microkernel (I'm a great supporter of them ;-), but how
> easy is it to add device drivers and things like that? Loadable
> modules? Something even neater?
> 

I don't know. Why don't you open a book and start reading if you are so
interested??