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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project?
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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>


> I was talking about booting a kernel with
> the bare minimum to be able to run a couple of
> user programs to link a new kernel. Then reboot.
> But perhaps not a good idea. Because
> at least IDE and ether drivers should be in place.
> 

that is a ghastly idea.  boot twice?  look, one of
the _features_ of a plan 9 terminal is that it
boots in about a second, well i'm talking about
a gnot.

christ, a vax 11/780 booted faster than most modern
systems and it was i/o bound on the la120.

given inferno has loadable modules, it wouldn't be
too hard to add loadable device drivers to it.  the
who point of a loadable device driver is _not_ to
reboot.

IDE?  very general.