Computer system having system feature extension software contain

Details Computer system having system feature extension software contain Computer system having system feature extension software contain

1993-12-06

1996-12-17

Black, Thomas G.

395830, 395883, 395681, G06F 1300

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055863248

ABSTRACT:
A computer system with self-describing feature table accessible by device drivers. Thus a simple process can access these feature tables to fully customize the device drivers at installation, or at boot: or the device driver can branch on the data in the feature table. Thus, a new degree of flexibility is achieved without degrading performance.

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