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        !             3: device drivers               Overview              device drivers
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        !             8: A device driver  is a program that controls the  action of one of
        !             9: the physical devices attached to your computer system.
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        !            11: The following  table lists the device  drivers included with this
        !            12: edition  of  the  COHERENT system.   The  first  field gives  the
        !            13: device's major device number;  the second gives its name; and the
        !            14: third describes it.  When a major device number has no driver as-
        !            15: sociated with it, that device is available for a driver yet to be
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        !            18:  0:  *mmeemm      Interface to memory
        !            19:  1:  ttttyy       Primitive tty driver
        !            20:  2:  kkbb/mmmm     Keyboard and video
        !            21:  3:  llpp        Parallel line printer
        !            22:  4:  ffll        Floppy drive
        !            23:  5:  aall00       Serial line 0 (COM1 and COM3)
        !            24:  6:  aall11       Serial line 1 (COM2 and COM4)
        !            25:  7:  hhss        Generic polled multi-port serial card
        !            26:  8:  rrmm        RAM disk
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        !            29: 11:  aatt        AT hard disk
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        !            31: 13:  ssccssii      SCSI device driver
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        !            41: 23:  sseemm       System V compatible semaphores
        !            42: 24:  sshhmm       System V subset shared memory
        !            43: 25:  mmssgg       System V compatible messaging
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        !            51: Also included are drivers for the following devices:
        !            52: ccoonnssoollee   Console driver
        !            53: cctt        Controlling terminal driver
        !            54: nnuullll      The ``bit bucket''
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        !            56: ***** See Also *****
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        !            58: at, boot,  com, console,  ct, fl,  Lexicon, lp, mboot,  mem, msg,
        !            59: null, scsi, sem, shm, tape, termio
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        !            64: COHERENT Lexicon                                           Page 1
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        !            69: device drivers               Overview              device drivers
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        !            73: ***** Notes *****
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        !            75: See the Release Notes for your  release of COHERENT for a list of
        !            76: supported devices and device drivers.
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        !            78: The devices  msg, sem, and  shm are loadable drivers  that can be
        !            79: loaded into memory using the command drvld.  See their respective
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