From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 18 18:44:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA27449 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA27442 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA00927; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:14:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970919111434.20114@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:14:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: Joerg Wunsch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INB question References: <19970918221839.VL10449@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM +0930 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM +0930, Mike Smith wrote: >> As Mike Smith wrote: >>> >>> The ISA specification explicitly requires bus pullup resistors. It may >>> be unwise to depend on reading 0xff back-to-back with a previous read/ >>> write operation, ... >> >> That's why i wrote ``unspecified, with a tendency to 0xff''. > > The implication (as an english speaker) from your claim was > "unspecified but sometimes 0xff". It would be civilised to qualify the > "tendency" under the circumstances. To be fair, I think that this is the same as "indeterminate, but with an above-average likelihood of being 0xff". I don't think this has anything to do with the fact that I speak German. Greg