8 Dec
1998
8 Dec
'98
8:46 a.m.
Athanasios Kotsenos wrote:
Speaking of mice, I totally freaked out when I found
out that 'PC's needed
*drivers* - being used to Amigas, Apples and Ataris. Of course all those
systems need some way of telling the computer how to communicate with
anything they are connected to - but, they put it discretely somewhere in
the operating system or in the hardware.
With Amigas, Apples and Ataris, there is a very limited collection
of such peripherals available, since the drivers discretely _in_ the
operating system is the whole set. Windows not actually being an
operating system, attaching external devices isn't that difficult, at
least during a week that Microsoft is feeling cooperative. And Intel.
Linux being a real operating system built from the ground to take
extensions, the device drivers have proper attachments in the kernel.
Oh, and kernel source code -- that does help.
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