[comp.unix.i386] Flame about stupid interrupt system designers for UNIX

friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl) (05/25/90)

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

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