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I/O and device Management

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by verab

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Compare and contrast I/O and device management in Windows98 and Unix

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by kent.manley

With the caveat that entire books have been written on these topics, here's the short answer.

Windows device drivers are essentially .dlls that make calls using Win32 API to the hardware abstraction layer.

Unix devices are essentially abstracted as character oriented files (although there are also block oriented devices as well).

You may want to look into some resources such as "Writing Linux Device Drivers," "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Unix System," and similar titles for Windows/Win32 if you need more information on this topic.

Hope this helps.

Kent

by shanghai sam

Although the answer was a little late in coming and topic was already researched, yet it was somewhat useful as knowledege is always welcomed.

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