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From: rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: RTC's OBIOS / who's going to write the code, availability, cost
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.110509.7886@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 91 11:05:09 GMT
Sender: rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill)
Reply-To: rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill)
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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A question that may be answered by the OBIOS draft specification, but isn't
obvious to me is..

who will write the device dependent routines for various devices,
will it be the device manufacturers or OS writers..

what i really want to know is, if i write an OS that uses the OBIOS, will i
be able to acquire the *drivers* i need, and at what expense.


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::     Robert Hartill, Dept Of Computing Mathematics, UWCC, Cardiff, UK.     ::
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very 
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