Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

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On Dec 14 2006 18:17, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
>> 
>> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.
>
>To be honest, I never really understood where kernel space starts and user space
>ends in Windows, so I'm not sure about this :-)

Well, in Windows 95/98 you could do inportb (inb) and friends from "userspace"
without an extra kernel driver. Maybe it just always ran in kernelspace,
explains why many say 95/98 was less stable than the NT-based versions.

	-`J'
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