[Info-vax] VMS device drivers, was: Re: VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Sun Jun 7 08:14:57 EDT 2015


On 2015-06-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> Writing a device driver for this sort of stuff isn't — on the previous 
> three architectures, at least — a big deal, either.
>

I found writing a VMS device driver (which was about a decade ago) to be
a _lot_ more cumbersome than writing a Linux device driver, but I still
managed to write one.

VSI should add fully supported reloadable device drivers to the (very)
long list of wishlist items for VMS. :-)

Simon.

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