Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtndew!friedl From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Flame about stupid interrupt system designers for UNIX Message-ID: <424@mtndew.UUCP> Date: 25 May 90 03:10:14 GMT References: <9005190016.aa19606@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> <263@paldn.UUCP> Organization: Steve's Barnburner 386 Lines: 16 In article <263@paldn.UUCP>, pwilcox@paldn.UUCP (Peter McLeod Wilcox) writes: > The group which designed the PC did not have a lot of real world > experience and interrupts are only one of about half a dozen areas > that this shows up in. When a buddy told me that the bus was active high I thought he was joking :-(. He further speculates that the bus was put together by a bunch of EE students on summer co-op. Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / Software Consultant / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy +1 714 544 6561 / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl What's Spaf gonna do if Purdue hires RTM?