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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:41:23 -0800
From:      John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>
To:        em1897@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hyper threading.
Message-ID:  <4249E7A3.40300@cloudview.com>
In-Reply-To: <8C702C956A86CA7-C38-9C1F@mblk-d12.sysops.aol.com>
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em1897@aol.com wrote:

>
> The principles of "modern" controllers are surprisingly similar to those
> of "old" controllers.  The biggest change is that the PC world is only
> now discovering what mainframe designers knew 40 years ago.
>
>
PC Designers knew it 20 years ago.  When I designed the Specialix SI
serial boards (for 286/386 Xenix boxes) they had interrupt throttling
built in (circa 1986/7).  

John



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