[Info-vax] VMS terminal port/class doc... no it's not...

[Roger Ivie]

On 2010-11-17, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>   The interface for terminal class drivers on OpenVMS I64 is a call-based
>>   interface. This is a significant difference from the JSB-based interface
>>   on OpenVMS Alpha that uses registers to pass arguments. 
>
> Does this mean that a rework of drivers for IA64 was done in the same
> spirit to allow easier re-use of driver code provided by Intel and/or
> Microsoft for various devices ?

No, I'd expect it to be done so that port drivers can be written in C.

I'd heard rumblings of a desire to do that even back in the Alpha days.
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roger ivie
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