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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up on LFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806120211.2087A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19980806203555.56458@follo.net>

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> > and all other services that would normally be in the kernel are in their
> > own address spaces, using strict IPC interfaces between modules.
> 
> Being able to develop device drivers without expecting your macine to hang
> is actually very neat :-)

  Yep, and apparently you can load, unload, and replace drivers on the fly
too.  It would be great to be able to upgrade the TCP/IP stack without
rebooting, for example.

> Eivind.
> 
> 

Tom


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