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Comment Re:Slots (Score 3, Interesting) 127

If you're the one writing the ISRs for all the hardware, you could stack any type of hardware on the same IRQ. That never happened in practice though, because the people making your hard disk controller are probably not the same outfit making your bus mouse board. DOS wasn't (and still isn't) an accepting environment for FOSS, for whatever reason. Everyone else's code is essentially a opaque black box that is not interoperable in the same way as something like interrupt routines on Linux.

The serial port stuff was an exception for a variety of reasons. Usually the high port-count serial setups used hardware from the same mfg., and once you're up into 8-port territory, you're probably using co-processed boards anyhow (DigiBoard and Cyclades-like hardware).

Comment Law enforcement labeled it a "burglary" (Score 2) 116

Which is specifically a break-in to an unoccupied property, but the media headlines labeled it as an "attack". Sometimes the headlines read "attack", but the article read "burglary". Not sure what's going on here and the two terms aren't necessarily exclusive, but it makes you wonder if some of the reporting isn't agenda driven.

Comment Why does everything try to connect to China? (Score 2) 37

I had my AC units replaced last year (Traine), and the "smart" thermostats that I didn't want but the units apparently need, aggressively try to make connections to servers in China. Obviously I disallow that. All this needless junk like LED light bulbs and dishwashers with Wi-Fi (why?) all try to connect to somewhere in China.

Comment Dorsey purgered himself before congress (Score 0) 73

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