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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga OS (vs Unix) Liscencing?
Message-ID: <668@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 12:33:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 12:33:41 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 07:23:54 EST
References: <11448@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <142@atux01.UUCP> <357@ccivax.UUCP> <618@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <374@ccivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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In article <374@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax.UUCP (What's in a name ?) writes:
>In article <618@amiga.amiga.UUCP> bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett) writes:
>>In article <357@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax writes: (edited)
>>>Only what you need is in core.
>>	Much of what you need (or don't) is in "ROM".  "loadable" devices 
>>	and libraries which you are not using (including: serial, parallel, 
>>	printer, speech, and any custom devices and libraries) are loaded
>>	and removed on an "as needed" basis.
>
>	I assume the 'hooks' to the "ROM" are somewhere in RAM so they
>	can be re-vectored if necessary?
>
What is in ROM are the routines necessary to load the drivers from disk.
If you don't like devs:serial.device I suppose you could write your own
(upwordly compatable) copy and put that in the DEVS: directory.  This 
might create a problem later for you if Commodore-Amiga also chooses to
release a new upwardly compatible version of the same driver.  (Murphy
says "they won't match!")

--Bruce Barrett