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From: jel@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jim Lumpp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Device drivers damaging HW
Message-ID: <13679@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 89 16:28:11 GMT
Reply-To: jel@ecn.purdue.edu (Jim Lumpp)
Organization: Purdue University
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I am not very familiar with IBM peripheral hardware and was 
told it is possible that the drives and monitor of a PC could 
be damaged by incorrectly written device drivers (i.e., by 
having students write them).  Is this true?  How susceptible 
is the IBM hardware to such damage?


thanks in advance,
Jim Lumpp

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