Jack Carroll wrote:
Device server? How about a motherboard that breaks the 16-interrupt
limit of the classic PC? It could use multi-level vectored interrupts, like
This limit is already long gone. Please read up on PCI Message
Signalled Interrupts (MSI) and PCI MSI-X.
the 68000 on VME bus, which gives practially unlimited interrupts. Then it
could have a whole lot of PCI slots, and the resources to actually use them
in an I/O-heavy application.
Of course, MS wouldn't support all those I/O slots, but do we care?
The standard code in Linux, and very likely Windows, already supports
this sort of thing.
Jeff
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