Bad Feelings...

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Mon Jun 23 19:26:25 1997

It was thus said that the Great A.R. Duell once stated:
>
> > If what you described above is correct, then did it work? If so, it
>
> Yes, it worked. It still works 100% AFAIK
>
> > wasn't such a bad design after all, was it? If not, then yeah, the design
>
> A bad design can still work.

  Case in point: the IBM PC.

  And forgoing the choice of CPU [1], there were still hardware problems
with it (IRQ 7 was lost due to the signal not being buffered, and then
there's the whole problem with not sharing IRQs to begin with ... )

  -spc (Still amazed that the PC is the only computer (I know of) that
        can't share IRQs ... )

[1] Given the time frame, contraints, politics and projected life
        expentancy of Project Chess, the choice of an 8088 isn't THAT
        bad. Not going with CP/M on the other hand ...
Received on Mon Jun 23 1997 - 19:26:25 BST