[rescue] Any Minneapolis area listers ?

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Thu Jan 11 10:33:51 CST 2007


On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:33:32AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
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> The other part is that PCI isn't very good at more than 4 slots, and one
> slot at least is usually taken up by motherboard components.

And why's that? Because the PC architecture influences PCI IRQs, and PCI's
four IRQs map 1:1 to PC IRQs. PCI is really just a light layer of 1990s
gaffer tape over the misdesign of the 80s.



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