On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:41:47 -0600, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> 
>>> How does this stuff work with Windoze? (Or Linux, for that matter...)
>> 
>> Dynamic link libraries (DLLs)
> 
> Oh, yeah... the answer only applies to Windows, Linux I haven't a clue.

On Linux it's similar; you have a set of standardized libraries that 
interface with lower level aspects of the kernel.  As I understand it, 
architecturally, you could call those kernel functions directly (and in 
fact in many cases you would do this, for example, to do thread 
management).

Jim

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