[ On Monday, April 17, 2000 at 17:41:08 (+0200), Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: PX/PXG and Neon project (beating the dead horse again)
>
>  That's the way Intel designs hardware -- see their APIC architecture used
> for i386/SMP systems -- it defines 240 hw interrupt sources (of which 16
> are not recommended), although a given implementation might not have
> enough physical IRQ lines.

You mean that's how they do it now after they made the mistake of
letting the world see the 8259....   :-)

-- 
							Greg A. Woods

+1 416 218-0098      VE3TCP      <gwoods@acm.org>      <robohack!woods>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>