Jim Thompson wrote:
Interrupt routing isn't that difficult, until you have to deal with
all the legacy IRQ crap from the days of ISA/EISA buses.
then its insane.
So, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, SPARC and x86 sans support for ISA are all
equivalent in terms of low-weirdness during install of a new card.
I remember IBM purportedly tried to deal with this problem by
introducing its "proprietary" MCA (MicroChannel Architecture), which
actually contributed to the beginning of the downfall of the mighty
Blue. I had wondered what the world might have become had (the old) IBM
not been so stupidly greedy. (Or greedily stupid?)
