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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 05:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:51:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >            CPU0
> >   0:  563586560          XT-PIC  timer
> >   1:    3329762          XT-PIC  keyboard
> >   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >   3:       1461          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, usb-uhci, ohci1394
> >   4:    9363329          XT-PIC  eth0
> >   8:        522          XT-PIC  rtc
> >  10:   38402578          XT-PIC  ide2
> >  12:   18145483          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
> >  14:    7005607          XT-PIC  ide0
> >  15:       1311          XT-PIC  ide1
> > 
> > I'd have noticed a long time ago if there were more than 15 IRQs.
> 
> Umm, there is an interrupt 0.  16 IRQs.

You try assigning a device to IRQ0.  To anyone who's been around
since the DOS/ISA days, there are 15 IRQs, since that's all that's
usable. 

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