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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:53:26 +0000
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jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Why don't you write the Plan 9 driver for the hardware you want to use?

Several reasons, some of them similar to yours:
Lack of available hardware documentation.
Lack of available time to do the work.
Lack of universality (i.e. it is expensive to do this every time
I upgrade the hardware or assemble a new system with then-current
hardware).
Remember, I said I was not criticizing the Plan 9 developers
on this score -- the PC hardware situation is horrible.  I was
just looking for a viable way to leverage the work that hardware
vendors have already put into drivers for Windows.