Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:59, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:02:23PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> > The world jumped off the IBM PC cliff, so we're still dealing with some
> > of the design mistakes IBM made the first time around.
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> And then people discovered they didn't have to jump off the retarded
> PC-BIOS cliff and started ignoring it for the most part. I think the
> only people who still have to deal with bios retardation are WinDOS folks.
No, you're wrong. Unless you've got APIC running, if your Linux
box is x86, you're still carrying baggage from 1981. Namely, the
limited number of IRQs.
This problem has been mitigated over the years, first, partially,
sometimes, after much waving of Dead Chickens, by Plug-n-Pray, and
then by PCI, and then by OSs that allow IRQ-sharing.
Even then, though, the Dead Hand Of 1981 hangs over Linux: perform-
ance suffers if too many PCI devices (whether cards or devices built
onto the mobo: IDE, USB, ieee1394, SCSI) share the same IRQ.
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