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[Thomas Hameenaho]

In article <1507 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

   In the previous operating systems I have used, the startup procedure was
   done by the loader.  This is what is missing in UNIX; the loader does not
   have the capability to produce the startup program, so that must be explicitly
   put in.


This is actually a feature. You can do whatever you like in the startup
code. One example I'm familiar with is for cross-compiling and downloading
into a standalone system. The startup code initializes the hardware and
things.
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