Re: What's involved in a port?

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 18:59

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In article <1992Sep21.061520.6409@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:
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>This is coming from someone who has never written an operating system.
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>Why is it difficult to port an OS from one machine to another? I
>understand that some aspects of an operating system must be made hardware

    Four things:

    Device Drivers

    Device Drivers

    Device Drivers

    VM/MMU

				    -Matt
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>-Anthony

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
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Subject: Re: What's involved in a port?
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