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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
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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-
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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
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                     78: The devices  msg, sem, and  shm are loadable drivers  that can be
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