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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news From: ericg@unixg.ubc.ca (Eric Gisin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:56:51 GMT Organization: World Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31740453.13068638@news.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <31702487.420C2193@lambert.org> <4ktqsh$iu4@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: port62.annex2.net.ubc.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21491 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:618 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3234 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3054 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17451 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45757 nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) wrote: >In article <31702487.420C2193@lambert.org>, >Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >>] and how to get the user from point A (a CDROM in one hand and >>] a PC on the desk) to point B (a fancy graphical interface >>] complete with "click here to start" button). >> >>This one is easier; it is completely technical, and I have >>tried to push it in a large number of comercial organizations, >>including Novell USG (the former USL) without success: >> >>1) Move the DDX code for per-card drivers into the >> kernel. > >Augh.... This is evil, and causes the kernel to bloat excessively. Even >in WNT, the pig that it is doesn't do this. > Both Win3 and Win95 do video mode switching in kernel-mode VxDs. And I just heard MS moved all of GDI to kernel mode in NT 4. It is all dynamically loaded and mostly pagable. Eric Gisin, ericg@unixg.ubc.ca