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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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