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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:42 +0530
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To: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
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Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007, you wrote:
> 
>> hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...]
> Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user 
> space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an 
> in-kernel linker and symbol table, IIRC.
> 

building upon or improving existing technology is as important as
inventing new things. if every one insisted on dreaming up new things, i
doubt we would've accomplished anything significant (not just in OS,
anywhere ;)

> 	Torsten

-jb
-- 
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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