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Feasibility of splitting the RISC OS kernel
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Author:                 Tim Dobson
Name:                   KernlSplit
Document version:       0.01
Last modified:          19-Apr-90

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This document discusses the feasibility of splitting the RISC OS kernel into
separate modules/code segments for each device driver.

Suggested device drivers to be split off:-

 VDU
        Screen hardware drivers
                VIDC
                Pointer
                Palette
                Hardware scroll/multiple display banks
                Allocation of screen memory
        Bitmap manipulation
                Wrch
                Sprites
                Draw
                Fonts
                ColourTrans

 Keyboard/mouse

 IIC
                Real time clock
                CMOS RAM
 Serial

 Centronics

 Memory control
