Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix TCP/IP Message-ID: Date: 4 May 90 13:45:55 GMT References: <4478@plains.UUCP> <915@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 > > While making radical changes like this, why not go the rest of the way and > > split all the device drivers into separate executables? > Hmm, Did some one mention Chorus :-) This is a fairly common technique, actually. AmigaOS does the same thing: apart from the drivers you need to boot (trackdisk.device, the default file system, the default console driver, etc...), which are in ROM, all device drivers are loaded at run-time. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Commercial solicitation *is* accepted by email to this address.