Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:39:12 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Potential source of interrupt aliasing Message-ID: <20050411093912.GE56099@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <E1DKvIv-0008eB-RO@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1DKvIv-0008eB-RO@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote.. > ... > > It's a pity that the modern PC is hamstrung by design decisions made > > over 25 years ago. > > sorry, but couldn't help it :-) > > The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 > feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that > gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, > and the US railroads were built by English expatriates. > > Why did the English people build them like that? Why would any sane person continue to use inches, feet, stones, yards etc etc anyway? >:-) Wilko -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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