Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ron@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Origin of "Generic" Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 89 13:17:30 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 328, message 5 of 8 The Berkeley UNIX Kernels autoconfigure themselves when you boot them up. The binary that comes with the tape (and the sample system in the kernel build directories) has a collection of the more common drivers so that people could get up and running on that kernel while setting up a system to generate the customize their own (dropping drivers they don't need, etc...). Berkeley called this non-customized kernel the "GENERIC" kernel in all the config files and docs. -Ron