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INTERVIEW: Rick Curry, SCSI driver programmer, now online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Skye)
Sun Aug 16 22:48:59 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 16 Aug 1998 20:02:00 -0400
From: pskye@peterskye.com (Peter Skye)
Reply-To: pskye@peterskye.com (Peter Skye)
Reply-to: pskye@peterskye.com (Peter Skye)
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From the Southern California OS/2 User Group:
An interview with Rick Curry, a professional OS/2 Device Driver
programmer with years of experience writing a variety of OS/2 drivers
and a specialist in SCSI/ASPI drivers, is now online at
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1998/scoug808.2.curry.html
In the interview, Rick touches on many subjects, including
- how he programmed Las Vegas slot machines to come up with
combinations that pleased the state Gaming Boards
- his OS/2 SCSI device driver subsystem for the Burlington Northern
Railroad's WORM drive jukeboxes
- Warp Server's and LAN Server's ability to associate several serial
ports together as a "shared modem pool"
- how Warp Server improves its performance by allowing drivers to
intercommunicate with IOCTL calls without leaving ring 0
- OS/2 drivers compared to NT drivers, NT's overhead, and how much
slower NT is
- how ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) works, and how to get
the documentation
- how to decipher a Trap error and determine the cause, and the
utility he uses to do so
- what "scatter/gather" is, why a driver must properly process it, and
why your old SCSI drivers may occasionally give you Trap E errors
- what compilers he uses and how he chooses the proper one for a
project
- what you'll need to write your first driver, and a tip for debugging
your drivers
- his OS/2 work for JPL on embedded systems
- his work with OS/2 LADDR (Layered Application Device Driver) drivers
- his offline utility for the YARN newsreader which creates a viewable
"DejaNews"-style database of the news you've downloaded
- how he traces spammers
Included at the end of the interview is an extensive url list.
The author wishes to extend his thanks to Mr. Curry for taking the time
to make this interview possible.
Sponsored by the Southern California OS/2 User Group
(http://www.scoug.com).
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