[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Dan Cross]

In article <un1nc8$2q36g$5 at dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>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

Yeah, NatBro's comment here is a bit dated.  WinDbg is actually
amazing and trounces anything in the Linux/GNU world.  The only
thing comparable might be `mdb` in the Solaris/illumos world.

	- Dan C.