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Thomas Hameenaho
thomas at uplog.se
Fri Aug 25 19:10:34 AEST 1989
In article <1507 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
In the previous operating systems I have used, the startup procedure was
done by the loader. This is what is missing in UNIX; the loader does not
have the capability to produce the startup program, so that must be explicitly
put in.
This is actually a feature. You can do whatever you like in the startup
code. One example I'm familiar with is for cross-compiling and downloading
into a standalone system. The startup code initializes the hardware and
things.
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