[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 17:45:58 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> A significant amount of work is done maintaining drivers, but inside
> MSFT and for OEMs.  Linux has become the most important OS in the world,
> and writing drivers for Windows is notoriously tedious.

In the words of the infamous “Halloween documents”
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween2.html>:

    An important attribute to note which has led to volume drivers is
    the ease with which you can write drivers for linux, and the
    relatively powerful debugging infrastructure that linux has.
    Finding and installing the DDK, and trying to hook up the kernel
    debugger and do any sort of interaction with user-mode without
    tearing the NT system to bits is much more challenging than
    writing the simple device-drivers for linux. Any idiot could write
    a driver in 2 days with a book like "Linux Device Drivers" — there
    is no such thing as a 2-day device-driver for NT