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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 01:26:30 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  5 Feb 97 at 0:00) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:

> > Nope. IBMDOS.COM should be kept as small as possible, and how do you
> > imagine adding up new file systems? Recompile IBMDOS.COM every time!?
> 
> Only takes me an hour to recompile a Linux kernel.  Recompiling a
> DOS kernel surely would only take 10-15 minutes.
Hmm... to recompile Linux kernel you use *only* one compiler (excluding 
assemblers) and *one* linker (well, two...).
To recompile OpenDOS you'd have to install 5 different commercial tools, and 
that takes both time when compiling and space when installing.

> > Now, that's the way to go! But, once again, we have to develop a standard
> > for these drivers.
> 
> Yep.  Sounds good to me.  With conditional compilation, one could
> compile support for a driver either directly into the kernel, or
> as a loadable module, or a dumb .SYS or .DRV file in config.sys.
I've started to design a sample format for such a dynamically loadable module 
that'd plug neatly into kernel (but don't worry, it won't be Plug & Pray(tm) 
;-))

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