Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Super Cheap IP router (< $1000)
Message-ID: <1989Apr19.173729.1669@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8904140206.AA10084@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <15321@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 17:37:29 GMT

In article <15321@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn) writes:
>As an additional aside, polling is the standard technique used in electronic
>telephone switches. Imagine an interrupt-driven switch when all the phones
>come off-hook simultaneously...

Little birds tell me, actually, that it is not unheard-of for some electronic
phone switches to misbehave badly in this situation...
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