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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
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In article <QUINLAN.94Dec8192943@shell1.best.com>
quinlan@shell1.best.com (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
> Where were loadable kernel modules first implemented?

Juergen Nickelsen (nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: SunOS 4 was early, but I don't know if it was the first.

And in the free world, NetBSD 0.9 had loadable kernel modules, courtesy
Terry Lambert, about 2 years ago (I believe... Terry?)

	Wes Peters