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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:56:02 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  4 Feb 97 at 17:05) ...Nissim... said:

> > > And perhaps also go along the lines of Linux and have loadable modules
> > > (a bit like VLMs).
> > Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard
> > for these drivers.
> Don't think it's ever gonna happen (soon at least (I mean the stuff you
Why?

> want)), but djgpp has the DXE stuff, and someone wrote a DLM library too.
Either DXE and DLM are DJGPP-specific and that is not acceptable for OpenDOS 
(it wouldn't be *that* 'Open', would it? ;-)). But, since the drivers in 
OpenDOS can work entirely in PM (thanks to DPMS), I think there's nothing to 
prevent adapting one of the 32-bit relocatable formats (LE | PE)

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