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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:08:02 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 01:26:24 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> This is Unix, the most sophisticated OS available.  It should support
> use of fallback drivers and dynamic loading of replacement devices
> as needed, so if they can't or won't build their own kernel, it will
> have no effect on their ability to run the system, one way or another.

Actually, it's more like: "This is Unix, the most sophisticated OS
available.  You should never ever need to even build a kernel for it
since every conceivable feature is either loaded dynamically as an LKM
or settable at runtime with sysctl(3).  Those few features which fall
between the cracks, like serial console selection or netbooting,
should be boot-time options (either on the prompt or in the "info
area" of the boot blocks)."

					Jordan