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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 05:33:56 GMT
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In article <3A7886A7.F1BB5513@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> I just bemoan anything that forces one to start using machine
> code to write a device driver.  I know that 25 years ago Unix
> was one of the first operating systems to have device drivers
> written in something other than assembly code.  (I know it
> was
> not *the* first, given Multics, etc.)  If 25 years
> later I find we have to drop back to assembly code in Ada,
> I would be quite disappointed, and believe we messed up the
> language definition somewhere.

As I noted before, device drivers often require very specific
instructions to be issued to the hardware. This is WAY beyond
what can be required in the language definition.


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