Kenneth_R_Jongsma@cup.portal.com (08/25/89)
Could someone fill me in on the practice of using the term "generic" instead of "release", "version" or any number of other terms, when talking about new central office switch software? There must be a historical reason for it, but it seems like a strange term to use... ken@cup.portal.com
ron@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (08/27/89)
The Berkeley UNIX Kernels autoconfigure themselves when you boot them up. The binary that comes with the tape (and the sample system in the kernel build directories) has a collection of the more common drivers so that people could get up and running on that kernel while setting up a system to generate the customize their own (dropping drivers they don't need, etc...). Berkeley called this non-customized kernel the "GENERIC" kernel in all the config files and docs. -Ron