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From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: YAIF (was Re: Windows for the Blind (was Re: BOYCOTT APPLE))
Message-ID: <4260001@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 31 Mar 88 14:25:06 GMT
References: <1311@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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This may be drifting a bit but ...

>Ah, yes...the "new" generation.  Like OS-9, which has supported dynamic linking

>and dynamically loadable device drivers on the 6809 since about 1980, and on
>the 68xxx since about 1984?

I seem to remember that you could load new device drivers into RT-11 in 1976.
Admittedly, you needed to patch the live kernel; one of the students at Bath
wrote a little program to do that bit for you. I can't remember what the
restrictions were, but there must have been some.

Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"