24 Feb
1999
24 Feb
'99
9:33 a.m.
Ethan Dicks <erd(a)infinet.com> wrote:
The only place I've seen the term
"slushware" used is on the DECmate boxes.
AFAIK, its use there matches your use here.
Not really. The slushware on a DECmate is in an entirely different address
space from user code, and can only be invoked by trapped I/O instructions
and the like. It is much more like the System Management Mode of the recent
x86 processors (late-486-era to present).
The Kickstart code on the Amiga is the normal operating system in the
normal address space, and directly interacts with user code.