Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:28:41 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: Hallam Oaks P/L list account <mlnn4@oaks.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win95/NT drivers on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <361A4539.70547242@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <199809301547.BAA25615@mail.aussie.org>
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Hallam Oaks P/L list account wrote: > > >supported WinNT (and some Win98) device drivers, as shipped by the OEM. > >Why WinNT and not Win95? Because WinNT drivers are more like Unix device > >drivers. They have well defined interfaces to the O/S, and are _not_ > > It would be within the realms of possibility to write support code that made > an NT driver think it was running under an NT kernel within FreeBSD. Would it not be easier to do this with SCO drivers than NT ones? It would be somewhat easier to configure a driver designed for some kind of unix than an NT driver that likely relies on a control panel applet or similar... also presumably more of the emulation code already works :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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