From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: AdaOS
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:03:30 GMT
Date: 2001-11-12T20:03:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mWVH7.22092$xS6.34190@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BF019F4.C9C460E5@mida.se
In article <3BF019F4.C9C460E5@mida.se>, Mats Karlssohn says...
>
>been led to belive that in NT the main purpose of the HAL is to isolate the
>device drivers from the architectural differenses of of different processors
>and machines. Like the difference between the separate I/O addresspace of
>the x86 vs. {alpha,mips} memory mapped I/O, the idea is that the same device
>driver can be used for a card, it doesn't matter weather the card is in
>a AlphaStation or an Intel box. There is more to it though (as usual).
The device drivers and the NT kernel both. I think they went with that design
because they were initially planning on porting NT to a great number of
platforms, and they didn't want to have to make changes all over the OS every
time that was done. However, they only ever had ports for 3 platforms, and they
soon dropped one of those.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-25 9:10 AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-10-25 11:35 ` AdaOS Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-28 1:44 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-10-29 16:40 ` AdaOS Tony Gair
2001-10-29 16:50 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2001-10-29 17:02 ` AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-10-31 8:54 ` AdaOS Tony Gair
2001-11-04 17:32 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 0:59 ` AdaOS David Starner
2001-11-05 18:15 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 12:50 ` AdaOS Franz Huber
2001-11-05 18:11 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-05 23:12 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-06 15:38 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-06 17:17 ` AdaOS Darren New
2001-11-06 17:26 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-06 20:37 ` AdaOS Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-06 22:28 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-06 22:47 ` HAL (was AdaOS) Hans-Olof Danielsson
2001-11-07 7:22 ` tmoran
2001-11-07 22:11 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-11-07 2:28 ` AdaOS Philip Cummins
2001-11-07 22:30 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-08 18:49 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-08 22:02 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-09 16:06 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-09 23:30 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-12 18:50 ` AdaOS Mats Karlssohn
2001-11-12 20:03 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-11-12 20:29 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-12 22:25 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-17 18:40 ` AdaOS Brian Catlin
2001-11-17 22:49 ` AdaOS Nick Roberts
2001-11-19 16:53 ` AdaOS Marin David Condic
2001-11-19 17:17 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-19 19:51 ` AdaOS Peter Hend�n
2001-11-19 22:41 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-08 12:34 ` AdaOS Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-09 15:58 ` AdaOS Ted Dennison
2001-11-09 18:56 ` AdaOS Peter Hend�n
2001-11-10 2:44 ` AdaOS Eric Merritt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-10 21:39 AdaOS Peter I. Hansen
2002-06-10 22:49 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2002-06-10 23:35 ` AdaOS Gerhard Häring
2002-06-11 0:07 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2002-06-11 16:42 ` AdaOS Wes Groleau
2002-06-11 17:06 ` AdaOS Preben Randhol
2001-09-10 15:09 AdaOS Peter Hermann
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