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From: alex@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: How does the death star "working" logo on the UNIXPC work?
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Date: 8 Jan 90 20:03:44 GMT
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In article <597@limbic.UUCP> gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:

>If they had to deal with kernel sleeps to handle the icon, there would be
>real kludgy things going on inside the kernel in order to implement this.
>If you remove the window driver, there is no such thing as a "working"
>icon...  I'm 99.9% sure that the code that drives the icon is in the
>window driver.

	Me too, but it could still be the sleep routine. Its pretty easy
to replace existing kernal routines in loadable drivers, so its quite 
possible that the window driver loads a new sleep routine when it gets loaded.

	Of course, I haven't looked at it either.

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