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LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 12, 2008 19:22 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: LCA: Two talks on the state of X by michaeljt
Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X

It has nothing to don with being performance-critical, and everything to 
do with low-level hardware interaction.  The Unix philosophy is to have 
the kernel do all direct hardware interaction.

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