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tracknut · 12-10-2012, 06:17 PM

Here's Wikipedia's description of device drivers - not specific to GUI.

Here's a Wikipedia description of RT-11, with a main section called "device drivers". It was released in 1970 and happens to be one of the earliest OS's I am familiar with, so that's what I looked up.

Dave

12-10-2012, 06:17 PM	PM User \| #5
tracknut Regular Coder Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 891 Thanks: 4 Thanked 205 Times in 204 Posts	Here's Wikipedia's description of device drivers - not specific to GUI. Here's a Wikipedia description of RT-11, with a main section called "device drivers". It was released in 1970 and happens to be one of the earliest OS's I am familiar with, so that's what I looked up. Dave