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Article #896Re: YAIF (was Re: Windows for the Blind (was Re: BOYCOTT APPLE))
From: Christopher Dollin
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1988 14:25
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1988 14:25
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This may be drifting a bit but ... >Ah, yes...the "new" generation. Like OS-9, which has supported dynamic linking >and dynamically loadable device drivers on the 6809 since about 1980, and on >the 68xxx since about 1984? I seem to remember that you could load new device drivers into RT-11 in 1976. Admittedly, you needed to patch the live kernel; one of the students at Bath wrote a little program to do that bit for you. I can't remember what the restrictions were, but there must have been some. Regards, Kers | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ptsfa!lll-tis!mordor!lll-lcc!pyramid!hplabs!otter!kers From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: YAIF (was Re: Windows for the Blind (was Re: BOYCOTT APPLE)) Message-ID: <4260001@otter.hple.hp.com> Date: 31 Mar 88 14:25:06 GMT References: <1311@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 14